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Book Synopsis Ping Pong Conversations by : Francesco Zanot
Download or read book Ping Pong Conversations written by Francesco Zanot and published by Logos. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World-renowned photographer Alec Soth discusses the history and the language of photography in a broad conversation with Francesco Zanot.
Book Synopsis Table Tennis Tactics for Thinkers by : Larry Hodges
Download or read book Table Tennis Tactics for Thinkers written by Larry Hodges and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "USA Table Tennis Hall of Famer and national coach Larry Hodges takes you on a journey not just of speed and spin, but of mind. You'll develop the habit of tactical thinking, learn what tactics to use against various styles and how to strategically develop your game so you'll have the tactical tools needed to win"--Page 4 of cover.
Book Synopsis Turning to One Another by : Margaret J. Wheatley
Download or read book Turning to One Another written by Margaret J. Wheatley and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the power of conversation for changing everything from personal relationships to organisational dysfunction, and then suggests conversation starters for meaningful discussions.
Book Synopsis Ping-Pong Diplomacy by : Nicholas Griffin
Download or read book Ping-Pong Diplomacy written by Nicholas Griffin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was one of the most significant developments of the post-war era: China finally abandoning its close relationship with the Soviet Union to begin detente with the USA. Astonishingly, the man who helped make it happen was a British aristocrat, Ivor Montagu, a Soviet spy who knew Stalin and dined with Trotsky. Even more remarkably, the means to this rapprochement was table tennis, a sport loved by both Chairman Mao and Montagu. For years, Montagu had lived a dual life, working to spread communism and also table tennis around the world. Surprisingly, the two strands of his career would come together in an event of global significance. Nicholas Griffin weaves a compelling story to reveal the background to the famous occasion in 1971, when the USA's Glenn Cowan, a 19-year-old hippie, befriended China's world champion Zhuang Zedong, who was imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution. Within days, the Americans would be playing the Chinese in front of 18,000 fans in Beijing, with the whole world watching. It was the beginning of a thaw in Sino-US relations that forced the Soviets into a crippling arms race that acted as a catalyst to pressuring them into errors that would draw the Cold War to an end. Sometimes sport truly can have the biggest consequences.
Book Synopsis Conversations of Democracy by : Stephen E. Frantzich
Download or read book Conversations of Democracy written by Stephen E. Frantzich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democratic politics involves a series of multi-directional conversations. Effective conversations have the potential to engage, educate, and animate both citizens and governmental officials. On the individual level, discovering successful conversational strategies benefits both political and social interaction. This book offers guidelines for conducting effective conversations personally, politically, and beyond such that readers of this book are unlikely to ever again look at conversation in the same way. New technologies and social trends both challenge and potentially enhance traditional face-to-face and media dominated conversations. Understanding the state, quality and potential of political conversations provides a unique perspective for evaluating and potentially improving government "by the people."
Book Synopsis Ping-Pong Diplomacy by : Nicholas Griffin
Download or read book Ping-Pong Diplomacy written by Nicholas Griffin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining the insight of Franklin Foer’s How Soccer Explains the World and the intrigue of Ben Affleck’s Argo, Ping Pong Diplomacy traces the story of how an aristocratic British spy used the game of table tennis to propel a Communist strategy that changed the shape of the world. THE SPRING OF 1971 heralded the greatest geopolitical realignment in a generation. After twenty-two years of antagonism, China and the United States suddenly moved toward a détente—achieved not by politicians but by Ping-Pong players. The Western press delighted in the absurdity of the moment and branded it “Ping-Pong Diplomacy.” But for the Chinese, Ping-Pong was always political, a strategic cog in Mao Zedong’s foreign policy. Nicholas Griffin proves that the organized game, from its first breath, was tied to Communism thanks to its founder, Ivor Montagu, son of a wealthy English baron and spy for the Soviet Union. Ping-Pong Diplomacy traces a crucial intersection of sports and society. Griffin tells the strange and tragic story of how the game was manipulated at the highest levels; how the Chinese government helped cover up the death of 36 million peasants by holding the World Table Tennis Championships during the Great Famine; how championship players were driven to their deaths during the Cultural Revolution; and, finally, how the survivors were reconvened in 1971 and ordered to reach out to their American counterparts. Through a cast of eccentric characters, from spies to hippies and Ping-Pong-obsessed generals to atom-bomb survivors, Griffin explores how a neglected sport was used to help realign the balance of worldwide power.
Book Synopsis Ping Pong for Fighters by : Tahl Leibovitz
Download or read book Ping Pong for Fighters written by Tahl Leibovitz and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is called Ping Pong for Fighters, and it's about fighting all the different elements that are attached to table tennis. The fight starts inward and eventually moves outward, from within ourselves, to the ball, to our opponents, to the environment and the external conditions. I think what's interesting about this book is that the reader takes the journey with me. All that I learned in over 20 years of competing in table tennis, is in this book. The goal of this book is to try and get the reader to approach the game differently. The book is basically a philosophy for the thinking and feeling player. A philosophy that encourages one to stay in the present moment, have self confidence and compete to the best of their ability. This book is also very direct and very easy to understand. It is not an intellectual discourse of any kind. The book reads more like a conversation consisting of helpful direction through experience and a philosophy of table tennis that is concerned more with experiencing what it feels like to think and play table tennis like a top table tennis player.
Book Synopsis Ping Pong, Vol. 1 by : Taiyo Matsumoto
Download or read book Ping Pong, Vol. 1 written by Taiyo Matsumoto and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Makoto “Smile” Tsukimoto and his friend Yutaka “Peco” Hoshino have been playing table tennis since they were kids, but as they enter high school, they find that the game has changed. Seeing potential in them that they themselves don’t fully realize, the coach recruits them for the school team. Bringing out their best will mean challenging the top players from rival schools in the summer tournament, including an ace Chinese exchange student who almost made the Olympic team. With the pressure on, can Smile and Peco take the heat and make it into the finals? -- VIZ Media
Book Synopsis Conversations with Likka Sto' Rufus by : Odie Hawkins
Download or read book Conversations with Likka Sto' Rufus written by Odie Hawkins and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the title – “Conversations with Likka Sto’ Rufus”. Rufus is a complex African-American character. It would not be accurate to call him “Liquor Store Rufus”, because the cultural nuances would be muted. “Likka Sto’ Rufus”, at seventy something, is beautifully mellow and snarky, combined with all of the rip-roaring spices that go to make a fully developed life. Willie West, the writer, takes us deeply into a character profile that is unusual, filled with delightful twists and turns. How often do we read about the life of someone who was a “tunnel rat” in Vietnam? It’s here in “Conversations with Likka Sto’ Rufus” along with some additional surprises to whet your imagination and spark an interest in traveling outside of your comfort zone.
Book Synopsis Healing Conversations by : Nance Guilmartin
Download or read book Healing Conversations written by Nance Guilmartin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-05-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether it's the loss of a job, a marriage, or a life, in today's 24/7 world we're increasingly faced with uncomfortable situations where we don’t know what to say yet we're called upon to quickly respond -- online or in person. We may fumble, avoid contact, or simply walk away perplexed, thinking we have done a bad job of responding to our friends, family, neighbors, clients, and co-workers. How do we pause, listen, and offer comfort in those hard moments? Filled with touching stories, this practical guide helps us step into someone else's shoes so that we can empathetically learn how to respond in times of need. The revised compact edition includes a new introduction, index and short reflections at the end of each chapter to help readers become more comfortable and effective when offering or accepting comfort in their demanding lives.
Book Synopsis Better Conversations by : Jim Knight
Download or read book Better Conversations written by Jim Knight and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Check out The Better Conversations trailer: https://youtu.be/y3FrWTXC8Uw "I thought I knew how to have a conversation; I’ve had millions of them. Some were good, others not so much so. But I want to have GREAT conversations, and Jim Knight has taught me how. The proof is in: better conversations are possible and the results are worth the investment." --DOUGLAS FISHER Coauthor of Rigorous Reading and Unstoppable Learning Because conversation is the lifeblood of any school You don’t want this book—you need this book. Why this confident claim? Think about how many times you’ve walked away from school conversations, sensing they could be more productive, but at a loss for how to improve them. Enter instructional coaching expert Jim Knight, who in Better Conversations honors our capacity for improving our schools by improving our communication. Asserting that our schools are only as good as the conversations within them, Jim shows us how to adopt the habits essential to transforming the quality of our dialogues. As coaches, as administrators, as teachers, it’s time to thrive. Learn how to: Coach ourselves and each other to become better communicators Listen with empathy Find common ground Build Trust Our students’ academic, social, and emotional growth depends upon our doing this hard work. It’s time to roll up our sleeves, open our minds, and dare to change for the better of the students we serve. You can get started now with Better Conversations and the accompanying Reflection Guide to Better Conversations.
Book Synopsis Conversations with Tim O'Brien by : Patrick A. Smith
Download or read book Conversations with Tim O'Brien written by Patrick A. Smith and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-10-22 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the strength of a National Book Award for his novel Going After Cacciato and a widely acclaimed short-story cycle, The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien (b. 1946) cemented his reputation as one of the most compelling chroniclers of Vietnam—and, in the process, was cast as a “Vietnam writer.” But to confine O’Brien to a single piece of ground or a particular style is to ignore the broad sweep of a career spanning nearly four decades. In addition to detailed discussions of all of O’Brien’s work—a memoir, If I Die in a Combat Zone, and seven books of fiction—the sixteen interviews and profiles in Conversations with Tim O’Brien explore common themes, with subtle differences. Looming large is the experience of Vietnam and its influence as well as O’Brien’s youth in Minnesota and the expectations of a midwestern upbringing. Interviews allowed the writer to fully examine the shifting boundaries of truth and identity, memory, and imagination in fiction; the role of war in society; gender issues; and the craft of writing. O’Brien approaches each of these topics and a host of others with a directness and an evident passion that will resonate with both readers and prospective writers.
Book Synopsis Table Tennis by : Bernd-Ulrich Gross
Download or read book Table Tennis written by Bernd-Ulrich Gross and published by Meyer & Meyer Verlag. This book was released on 2011 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Werner Schlager stands for a successful individual and self confident player. That is exactly what he wants to get across in his interviews: individuality, determination, endurance and the belief in yourself. Table Tennis- Tips from a World ChampionA" is a practical training book for successful table tennis. The aim is not to copy Werner Schlager as a player but to use his tips to find your own way to use them successfully. Numerous picture series explain technique and tactic. This book is meant to encourage individuality in technique and game. All in all this is a differentA" table tennis teaching book for players and coaches who are keen to progress further
Book Synopsis Conversations on Global Citizenship Education by : Emiliano Bosio
Download or read book Conversations on Global Citizenship Education written by Emiliano Bosio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a remarkable collection of theoretically and practically grounded conversations with internationally recognized scholars, who share their perspectives on Global Citizenship Education (GCE) in relation to university research, teaching, and learning. Conversations on Global Citizenship Education brings together the narratives of a diverse array of educators who share their unique experiences of navigating GCE in the modern university. Conversations focus on why and how educators’ theoretical and empirical perspectives on GCE are essential for achieving an all-embracing GCE curriculum which underpins global peace. Drawing on the Freirean concept of "conscientization", GCE is presented as an educational imperative to combat growing inequality, seeping nationalism, and post-truth politics. This timely volume will be of interest to educators who are seeking to develop their theoretical understanding of GCE into teaching practice, researchers and students who are new to GCE and who seek dynamic starting points for their research, and general audience who are interested in learning more about the history, philosophy, and practice of GCE.
Book Synopsis Communicating Partners by : James D. MacDonald
Download or read book Communicating Partners written by James D. MacDonald and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2004-05-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communicating Partners, the result of over thirty years of clinical practice and research work with pre-verbal and verbal children with language delays, offers an innovative approach to working with late talking children that focuses on developing relationships through mutual understanding. Providing detailed maps of what children and their life partners need to do to ensure effective social relationships, the program focuses on five key stages of communication development - interactive play, nonverbal communication, social language, conversation, and civil behavior - and five life-long responsive strategies to use every day to build relationships within the child's own world. Communicating Partners addresses issues such as: * What does a child need to do before language? * What are effective ways to help a child socialize and communicate from early play through civil conversations? * How have parents successfully helped children learn to communicate at home? * How can a child develop socially effective language and conversation skills? * How can a child with an autistic spectrum disorder, Down Syndrome or other significant delays develop rich social relationships? * What have families done to build warm social relationships with their children? * What is developmentally effective therapy and education when social and communicative delays are of major concern? Illustrated with personal stories and research findings, and containing a wealth of practical suggestions to help parents, teachers, and professionals understand their child's world, Communicating Partners is an invaluable resource for all those interacting and working with late talking children.
Book Synopsis Seduction is Conversation: Engaging with Words by : Emanuele M. Barboni Dalla Costa
Download or read book Seduction is Conversation: Engaging with Words written by Emanuele M. Barboni Dalla Costa and published by EBC Edizioni. This book was released on 2022-01-02 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Seduction is an ongoing process that does not end in the first few months but must continue throughout the relationship”. In this essay, the topic of seduction is treated in a new way. The assumption is that a partner must be attracted to him or her even after the initial phase. In order to ensure continuity in the story, it is necessary to maintain lively communication that can guarantee positive emotional involvement. What can we do, then, to achieve long-lasting and satisfying relationships? A good place to start is with advanced dialogue skills in order to use your sensitivity to gently penetrate your partner’s mind. This book, full of ideas and reflections, will accompany you in the development of new skills (from emotional communication to relational storytelling) to improve your life as a couple and, more generally, the way you relate to the world. TABLE OF CONTENTS Synopsis SEDUCTION IS CONVERSATION Seduction is a Continuous Process Things Don't Happen in Love. They Are Made to Happen. Seduction in the Initial Phase (The Great Classic) We are Eight Billion, All Different Seduction is a Question of Values and Dignity Sniffing the Ass to Know the Air Deep Talk Beats Cheap Talk at Hands Off How to Always Look Cool, Even If You Don't Feel Cool Watch out for Red Flags Keeping the Conversation Level High The Damned Conversations Online The Art of Storytelling to Convey Your Value Somewhere You Have to Start (First Meeting) Communication Environment Analysis Interpreting the Communication Context Mistrust and Incommunicability Listening is Always Sexy The Power of Silence APPENDIX Seduction: Perception, Prejudice and Mental Image Female and Male Signals of Interest Communication and Objectives Igniting Emotional Memories Through Stories INSIGHTS 5 Ways to 'Challenge' by Creating Interest Igniting a Dialogue with the Mystery Technique Creating 'Emotional Tension' to Better Understand Men and Women Creating 'Emotional Tension' With Live Stories Generating Positive Tension in a Dialogue How to empathise with a person Generating Authentic Interest in People Improvising a Live Story How to Start Telling an Anecdote How to Start a Conversation How to Keep the Level of a Conversation High Flashback and Flashforward in Relational Storytelling 3 Simple Steps to Tell a Story Non-Verbal Errors to Avoid The Weapon of Storytelling in Interpersonal Relations Tell Your Anecdotes Like a Film Why Your Dialogues Go Dull More Charisma and Confidence With 23 Daily Communication Exercises The Author
Author :Susan Campbell and Christine Irving Publisher :Independently Published ISBN 13 :9781072397021 Total Pages :104 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (97 download)
Book Synopsis Ping Pong Poems by : Susan Campbell and Christine Irving
Download or read book Ping Pong Poems written by Susan Campbell and Christine Irving and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-06-19 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ping Pong Poems, Christine Irving and Susan Campbell create a living conversation that explores the poets' backgrounds and wide-ranging interests. In contrast to the acrimony and recriminations that seem to pervade our world, these friends exchange ideas clothed in striking metaphors-like friends meeting over coffee-one topic connecting cognitively to the next subject and then round again. In this collection, each poem acts as an inspiration for the next poem so that each is both follower and leader in a continuing round of mutual exploration. As the process unwinds and develops interplay, natural affinities are revealed, sometimes spiraling in surprising ways to reach the same ends from two very different directions.Ping Pong signals a willingness to play with words and to participate in our inner lives and with the world-and with each other! That's the heart of writing, isn't it, a tenet that we must keep alive and urgent, or else, as Marvin Bell writes in Segues, "all fall down." Dialoging has proved to be more than just a way to hone my craft. I am enchanted with the unexpected ways these dialogs move us through time and space. The intimacy inherent in the conscious and unconscious revelation of our authentic selves touches me deeply. I am grateful for Susan's faithful responses and the amazing breadth of her knowledge, which continues to expand and enrich my understanding of our amazing world. We live a fair distance from one another and rarely find time for a face to face leisurely conversation. Dialog allows us to cultivate friendship in a new way. The longer I live, the more I enjoy having friends with whom to share a deep appreciation for the workings of nature and the miraculous ever-unfolding mystery of creation. Such friends are precious beyond rubies. Susan is no exception.
