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Ten Teen Tales

Author : Emma Lorival
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 145661035X
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book Ten Teen Tales written by Emma Lorival and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TEN TEEN TALES are beautiful memories from my experience as a teacher. They are lessons of life that I want to share with teachers, students and parents who wish to enrich their lives and thrive. Here you have some excerpts from the book: From CHAPTER ONE: There he was, flying through the air, three flips, he made, said an eyewitness. He felt his body dashed against the concrete of the avenue, but he cared for his vehicle so he stood up, walked ... Later he exclaimed he was allergic to death, read how and why. FROM CHAPTER FIVE: When they knew I was the teacher who gave their son that first "A" in the only subject where he was able to get it, they asked me in disbelieve how that happened. "He's a good student, you can see it now, ..." Some parents are unaware of what they say to their children, their sayings are law for them, so now you might be conscious about it. FROM CHAPTER SEVEN: I'd rather be married to an Event Planner than to a lawyer, I prefer to prepare a joyful occasion instead of a great trial. Choose what you want to be what you want to do with lightened and clean heart, that way you'll enjoy your life.

God's Peoples

Author : Donald H. Akenson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801427558
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book God's Peoples written by Donald H. Akenson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Akenson brings to light critical similarities among three politically troubled nations: South Africa, Israel, and Northern Ireland.

All I Have Is I

Author : Cannio Cardozo
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1664217509
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book All I Have Is I written by Cannio Cardozo and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2021-01-20 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While humanity has been greatly blessed, there are times when we act as if we are entirely ruled by impulse. We fall short in the discretion of gravity of the bond between the self and the worldly entities. Though being primarily cognitive organisms, in times of panic, dread, and anxiety—such as the COVID-19 pandemic—we become irrational and function only according to instinct. Musing on these events inspired author Cannio Cardozo to record his thoughts and reflections on humankind’s recent actions. All I Have Is I presents an introspection of life, filled with striking examples from daily life, relevant parables, and summarizing poems at the end of each chapter. Part 1 deals with “I” in relation to worldly entities and the power of self-worth, while part 2 considers the obsession one has with the self, which results in the breakdown of relationships due to arrogance. When all is said and done, divine intervention plays a vital role in the transformation of the individual. “It is a book worth reading and reflecting upon because of its investigation and exploration of the world that is wrapped within each self.” — Rev. Dr. Pius James D’Souza, OCD, provincial superior “This work contains a beautiful insightful perception of the ‘self’ commonly perceived as the ‘I’ and its multifarious interaction with worldly entities.” — Rev. Jerald D’Souza, OCD, provincial delegate

Choose the Life You Want

Author : Tal Ben-Shahar
Publisher : The Experiment
ISBN 13 : 161519195X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book Choose the Life You Want written by Tal Ben-Shahar and published by The Experiment. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What kind of life do you want for yourself? What choices will create this kind of life? In his New York Times bestseller Happier, positive psychology expert Tal Ben-Shahar taught us how to become happier through simple exercises. Now, in Choose the Life You Want, he has a new, life-changing lesson to share: Drawing on the latest psychological research, Ben-Shahar shows how making the right choices—not the big, once-in-a-lifetime choices, but the countless small choices we make every day almost without noticing—has a direct, long-lasting impact on our happiness. Every single moment is an opportunity to make a conscious choice for a happy and fulfilled life. Choose the Life You Want covers 101 such choices, complete with real-life stories, to help you identify and act on opportunities large and small.

Bones & Honey

Author : Danielle Dulsky
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 1608688933
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Bones & Honey written by Danielle Dulsky and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WILD MEDICINE FOR APOCALYPTIC TIMES This Witch’s devotional is a collection of nature-inspired prayers, mythic incantations, stories, and pagan poetry that can be enjoyed slowly or all at once. It will resonate with anyone looking to soothe the wounds of modernity with eco-devotional language, spellwork, and daily spiritual nourishment. Danielle Dulsky speaks to the expanding movement of those returning to slow, simple living and cultivating an Earth-inspired, sustainable existence. Organized around thirteen archetypes and their themes, ranging from the Mountain Mage (solitude) and Bone-Witch (grievers) to the Heathen Queen (empowerment) and Shepherd (nurturing), Bones & Honey will carry you to the “third road,” the unforeseen way that arises from the tension of opposites.

The Unbroken Thread

Author : Sohrab Ahmari
Publisher : Convergent Books
ISBN 13 : 0593137175
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book The Unbroken Thread written by Sohrab Ahmari and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We’ve pursued and achieved the modern dream of defining ourselves—but at what cost? An influential columnist and editor makes a compelling case for seeking the inherited traditions and ideals that give our lives meaning. “Ahmari’s tour de force makes tradition astonishingly vivid and relevant for the here and now.”—Rod Dreher, bestselling author of Live Not by Lies and The Benedict Option As a young father and a self-proclaimed “radically assimilated immigrant,” opinion editor Sohrab Ahmari realized that when it comes to shaping his young son’s moral fiber, today’s America is woefully lacking. For millennia, the world’s great ethical and religious traditions have taught that true happiness lies in pursuing virtue and accepting limits. But now, unbound from these stubborn traditions, we are free to choose whichever way of life we think is most optimal—or, more often than not, merely the easiest. All that remains are the fickle desires that a wealthy, technologically advanced society is equipped to fulfill. The result is a society riven by deep conflict and individual lives that, for all their apparent freedom, are marked by alienation and stark unhappiness. In response to this crisis, Ahmari offers twelve questions for us to grapple with—twelve timeless, fundamental queries that challenge our modern certainties. Among them: Is God reasonable? What is freedom for? What do we owe our parents, our bodies, one another? Exploring each question through the lives and ideas of great thinkers, from Saint Augustine to Howard Thurman and from Abraham Joshua Heschel to Andrea Dworkin, Ahmari invites us to examine the hidden assumptions that drive our behavior and, in doing so, to live more humanely in a world that has lost its way.

TO WHAT END?!

Author : Andy A. Afrouz
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 149901922X
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book TO WHAT END?! written by Andy A. Afrouz and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An executive secretary in dark blue business attire and short colored blond hair, sitting behind her office desk, quickly checked her desk top office security screen to see who is outside. She then pushed a button under her desk which unlocked the office door and said: “Come in please” After the man entered the office, its door closed and locked automatically. The man said with a business like American accent: “Good morning Camellia – The boss is expecting me” The executive secretary replied: “I know - Nice to see you Mr. Zorin” She then informed her boss through her office intercom: “Mr. Zorin is here to see you Sir” Her boss, a man in a stripped brown suite, sitting behind an elaborate walnut desk in a modern, secured and sound proof office environments checked his security screen to make sure who is behind his office door, clicked on a strategically located remote door unlock device to his office and replied with a deep and authoritative voice: “Please let him in” Camellia replied: “OK Sir” She then asked Mr. Zorin: “Please, proceed” Zorin thanked Camellia, opened a heavy dark cherry door accessing the boss’s office and entered. This door also closed and locked automatically. Zorin had a rough stone cold face with piercing black eyes and a mild smile. He had about two inches long healed gush above his right eyebrow which seemed to be caused by brushing of a bullet. Upon entry, he said: “Good morning boss” The boss replied: “Good morning Joe – Nice to see you back” He then pointed with his left hand to an armchair opposite his desk and said: “Please, take a seat” Joe Zorin sat and replied: “Thank you, nice to see you too boss” The boss asked: “How you are and what’s up?” Joe Zorin replied: “I am fine thanks – I brought the report you requested” He then opened his briefcase, took out a somewhat thick report, forwarded it to his boss and said: “It’s all there with maps, photos and what not” The boss quickly fanned looking over the report, placed it at a corner of his desk and reiterated: “Thanks Joe; I’ll look at it closely later - In the meantime, we have a more pressing top secret project for you on the Iranian nuclear venture”

An International Psychology of Men

Author : Chris Blazina
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135280649
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book An International Psychology of Men written by Chris Blazina and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-01-19 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is the first to provide a contextual understanding of the clinical issues that affect men and masculinity across a wide range of cultural and national settings. It demonstrates that gender can no longer be viewed as an isolated characteristic; in an era of increased globalization, mental health professionals need to take ethnic and cultural issues into account to provide adequate care for male patients. Numerous international perspectives are offered by the contributing authors, authorities from countries such as Australia, Argentina, Denmark, Canada, India, Ireland, and South Africa, on theoretical and clinical innovations for working with men. Their chapters also offer insight into the socio-cultural contexts for counseling men in and from their respective countries by exploring the ways in which "being a man" is socially defined, what unique challenges men face, and how these challenges can be negotiated within their specific cultural settings. Topics addressed will include boyhood notions of manhood, relationship concerns and power, fatherhood, and men’s body image across the life span. This text will ultimately enable mental health practitioners to have a better understanding of how to work more effectively with male clients.

A Woman's Word

Author : Joanna Peters
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1982271612
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book A Woman's Word written by Joanna Peters and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Beautiful souls, our time to rise is now. But first we need to stop believing the lie that every other woman has it all together except us”. Bombarded with unrealistic societal messages about what being successful as a woman looks like, A Woman’s Word is a compelling and refreshing confirmation that we all doubt ourselves, break down in tears, struggle with comparison and wonder if we are ‘enough’ at times. Joanna Peters has had the honor of standing beside some seriously remarkable warriors on their healing journeys. Leveling the ‘secret shame’ playing field with no topic off-limits, she shares her first-hand account of nine women’s heartwarming, emotional, and empowering healing stories and their brave journeys from darkness to light. She shares their courageous and complicated stories in support of all women, so we can see ourselves in their struggle and find a way forward in our lives. Too often, our journey to peace is compromised by trying to hide the fact that we are a human with flaws. Darkness is a part of everyone’s journey that needs a light shined through it to heal. Follow Rosa’s heart-wrenching journey through teen addiction and homelessness, Sophia’s relatable struggle with perfectionism and anxiety in corporate while battling secret shame, or cry with Brenda as she fumbles through motherhood battling depression and devastating grief. A Woman’s Word shares the raw and empowering true stories of nine brave women healing from the darkness of trauma that beckons and inspires healing, acceptance and self-love in us all.

Lourdes

Author : Ruth Harris
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014188990X
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (418 download)

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Download or read book Lourdes written by Ruth Harris and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lourdes was at the very centre of nineteenth century debates on religion, science and medicine. Both the Church and secularists championed the 'miracle' town as crucial in shaping how society should think about the mind, body and spirit. Since the ‘visions’ of Bernadette Soubirous in 1858 transformed the quiet Pyrenean town into an international tourist and pilgrimage destination, it has been a site for controversy. In her well-crafted and carefully researched book, Harris deftly places Lourdes and its attendant spiritual movement firmly at the centre of French history and shows its significance in the country’s development.

The War on Error

Author : Martin Kramer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351295306
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book The War on Error written by Martin Kramer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The War on Error', historian and political analyst Martin Kramer presents a series of case studies, some based on pathfinding research and others on provocative analysis, that correct misinformation clouding the public's understanding of the Middle East. He also offers a forensic exploration of how misinformation arises and becomes "fact." The book is divided into five themes: Orientalism and Middle Eastern studies, a prime casualty of the culture wars; Islamism, massively misrepresented by apologists; Arab politics, a generator of disappointing surprises; Israeli history, manipulated by reckless revisionists; and American Jews and Israel, the subject of irrational fantasies. Kramer shows how error permeates the debate over each of these themes, creating distorted images that cause policy failures. Kramer approaches questions in the spirit of a relentless fact-checker. Did Israeli troops massacre Palestinian Arabs in Lydda in July 1948? Was the bestseller 'Exodus' hatched by an advertising executive? Did Martin Luther King, Jr., describe anti-Zionism as antisemitism? Did a major post-9/11 documentary film deliberately distort the history of Islam? Did Israel push the United States into the Iraq War? Kramer also questions paradigms—the "Arab Spring," the map of the Middle East, and linkage. Along the way, he amasses new evidence, exposes carelessness, and provides definitive answers.

From Du Bois to Obama

Author : Charles Pete Banner-Haley
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809385627
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book From Du Bois to Obama written by Charles Pete Banner-Haley and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2010-06-16 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his groundbreaking new book Charles Pete Banner-Haley explores the history of African American intellectualism and reveals the efforts of black intellectuals in the ongoing struggle against racism, showing how they have responded to Jim Crow segregation, violence against black Americans, and the more subtle racism of the postintegration age. Banner-Haley asserts that African American intellectuals—including academicians, social critics, activists, and writers—serve to generate debate, policy, and change, acting as a moral force to persuade Americans to acknowledge their history of slavery and racism, become more inclusive and accepting of humanity, and take responsibility for social justice. Other topics addressed in this insightful study include the disconnection over time between black intellectuals and the masses for which they speak; the ways African American intellectuals identify themselves in relation to the larger black community, America as a whole, and the rest of the world; how black intellectuals have gained legitimacy in American society and have accrued moral capital, especially in the area of civil rights; and how that moral capital has been expended. Among the influential figures covered in the book are W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, James Weldon Johnson, E. Franklin Frazier, Ralph Bunche, Oliver C. Cox, George S. Schuyler, Zora Neale Hurston, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jesse Jackson, Cornel West, Toni Morrison, bell hooks, Charles Johnson, and Barack Obama. African American intellectuals, as Banner-Haley makes clear, run the political gamut from liberal to conservative. He discusses the emergence of black conservatism, with its accompanying questions about affirmative action, government intervention on behalf of African Americans, and the notion of a color-blind society. He also looks at how popular music—particularly rap and hip-hop—television, movies, cartoons, and other media have functioned as arenas for investigating questions of identity, exploring whether African American intellectuals can also be authentically black. A concluding discussion of the so-called browning of America, and the subsequent rise in visibility and influence of black intellectuals culminates with the historic election of President Barack Obama, an African American intellectual who has made significant contributions to American society through his books, articles, and speeches. Banner-Haley ponders what Obama’s election will mean for the future of race relations and black intellectualism in America.

Violette

Author : Tania Szabó
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750964723
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Violette written by Tania Szabó and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOE agent Violette Szabó was one of the most incredible women who operated behind enemy lines during the Second World War. The daughter of an English father and French mother, and widow of a French army officer, she was daring and courageous, conducting sabotage missions, being embroiled in gun battles and battling betrayal. On her second mission she was captured by the Nazis, interrogated and tortured, then deported to Germany where she was eventually executed at Ravensbrück concentration camp. Violette was one of the first women ever to be awarded the George Cross, and her fascinating life has been immortalised in film and on the page. Written by her daughter, Violette (formerly Young, Brave and Beautiful) reveals the woman and mother behind this extraordinary hero.

All God's Children

Author : Terence Lester
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 1514005964
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book All God's Children written by Terence Lester and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The more you understand someone's history, the better you can see their humanity. Terence Lester shares the buried history of the struggles that Black people have faced against unjust systems, paving the way for the church to move beyond showing support from a distance toward long-term solidarity, advocacy, and friendship.

After Suicide

Author : John H. Hewett
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 1611644836
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book After Suicide written by John H. Hewett and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This constructive guide offers much-needed information and clinically-tested advice for those struggling to cope in the aftermath of a suicide. Written in clear language, this book presents the facts and demonstrates how to deal with feelings of guilt, anger, bewilderment, and shame. Also included is an anniversary memorial service that enables family members to recommit themselves to life.

Criminal Intimacy

Author : Regina Kunzel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226824780
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Criminal Intimacy written by Regina Kunzel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex is usually assumed to be a closely guarded secret of prison life. But it has long been the subject of intense scrutiny by both prison administrators and reformers—as well as a source of fascination and anxiety for the American public. Historically, sex behind bars has evoked radically different responses from professionals and the public alike. In Criminal Intimacy, Regina Kunzel tracks these varying interpretations and reveals their foundational influence on modern thinking about sexuality and identity. Historians have held the fusion of sexual desire and identity to be the defining marker of sexual modernity, but sex behind bars, often involving otherwise heterosexual prisoners, calls those assumptions into question. By exploring the sexual lives of prisoners and the sexual culture of prisons over the past two centuries—along with the impact of a range of issues, including race, class, and gender; sexual violence; prisoners’ rights activism; and the HIV epidemic—Kunzel discovers a world whose surprising plurality and mutability reveals the fissures and fault lines beneath modern sexuality itself. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including physicians, psychiatrists, sociologists, correctional administrators, journalists, and prisoners themselves—as well as depictions of prison life in popular culture—Kunzel argues for the importance of the prison to the history of sexuality and for the centrality of ideas about sex and sexuality to the modern prison. In the process, she deepens and complicates our understanding of sexuality in America.

The Warlock's Last Ride

Author : Christopher Stasheff
Publisher : Stasheff Literary Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 0998938947
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (989 download)

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Download or read book The Warlock's Last Ride written by Christopher Stasheff and published by Stasheff Literary Enterprises. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE FINAL ADVENTURE IN THE PHENOMENAL SERIES After an incredible 35-year run, the story of Rod Gallowglass - the Warlock in Spite of Himself - comes to its fantastic finale in the weird and wonderful world of Gramarye, simultaneously wrapping up the Warlock, Warlock’s Heirs, and Rogue Wizard series. When Gwendolyn - the witch-wife of Rod Gallowglass, the Lord High Warlock of Gramarye - suddenly dies, she leaves behind a husband dangerously unhinged by grief and a land without a Protector. So it's the worst time for the Gallowglass’s ancient enemies - Durer and the Mocker - to return for one last bid to overthrow the monarchs of Gramarye and seize power. Stirring up a peasant revolt, manipulating politics to trigger a civil war between the Crown and the Lords, all while orchestrating a monster invasion and attempting to trying to turn the Gallowglass children against each other, Gramarye may face its greatest challenge yet.