Download or read book On the Brink of Everything written by Parker J. Palmer and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This impassioned book invites readers to the deep end of life where authentic soul work and human transformation become pressing concerns.” —Publishers Weekly 2019 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medalist in the Aging/Death & Dying Category From bestselling author Parker J. Palmer comes a brave and beautiful book for all who want to age reflectively, seeking new insights and life-giving ways to engage in the world. “Age itself,” he says, “is no excuse to wade in the shallows. It’s a reason to dive deep and take creative risks.” Looking back on eight decades of life—and on his work as a writer, teacher, and activist—Palmer explores what he’s learning about self and world, inviting readers to explore their own experience. In prose and poetry—and three downloadable songs written for the book by the gifted Carrie Newcomer—he meditates on the meanings of life, past, present, and future. With compassion and chutzpah, gravitas and levity, Palmer writes about cultivating a vital inner and outer life, finding meaning in suffering and joy, and forming friendships across the generations that bring new life to young and old alike. “This book is a companion for not merely surviving a fractured world, but embodying—like Parker—the fiercely honest and gracious wholeness that is ours to claim at every stage of life.” —Krista Tippett, New York Times-bestselling author of Becoming Wise “A wondrously rich mix of reality and possibility, comfort and story, helpful counsel and poetry, in the voice of a friend . . . This is a book of immense gratitude, consolation, and praise.” —Naomi Shihab Nye, National Book Award finalist

Download or read book Maxed Out written by Katrina Alcorn and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a Foreword IndieFab Book of the Year Award Katrina Alcorn was a 37-year-old mother with a happy marriage and a thriving career when one day, on the way to Target to buy diapers, she had a breakdown. Her carefully built career shuddered to a halt, and her journey through depression, anxiety, and insomnia—followed by medication, meditation, and therapy—began. Alcorn wondered how a woman like herself, with a loving husband, a supportive boss, three healthy kids, and a good income, was unable to manage the demands of having a career and a family. Over time, she realized that she wasn’t alone; many women were struggling to do it all—and feeling as if they were somehow failing as a result. Mothers are the breadwinners in two-thirds of American families, yet the American workplace is uniquely hostile to the needs of parents. Weaving in surprising research about the dysfunction between the careers and home lives of working mothers, as well as the consequences to women’s health, Alcorn tells a deeply personal story about “having it all,” failing miserably, and what comes after. Ultimately, she offers readers a vision for a healthier, happier, and more productive way to live and work.

Download or read book The Brink written by Marc Ambinder and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An informative and often enthralling book…in the appealing style of Tom Clancy” (Kirkus Reviews) about the 1983 war game that triggered a tense, brittle period of nuclear brinkmanship between the United States and the former Soviet Union. What happened in 1983 to make the Soviet Union so afraid of a potential nuclear strike from the United States that they sent mobile ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) into the field, placing them on a three-minute alert Marc Ambinder explains the anxious period between the United States and the Soviet Union from 1982 to 1984, with the “Able Archer ’83” war game at the center of the tension. With astonishing and clarifying new details, he recounts the scary series of the close encounters that tested the limits of ordinary humans and powerful leaders alike. Ambinder provides a comprehensive and chilling account of the nuclear command and control process, from intelligence warnings to the composition of the nuclear codes themselves. And he affords glimpses into the secret world of a preemptive electronic attack that scared the Soviet Union into action. Ambinder’s account reads like a thriller, recounting the spy-versus-spy games that kept both countries—and the world—in check. From geopolitics in Moscow and Washington, to sweat-caked soldiers fighting in the trenches of the Cold War, to high-stakes war games across NATO and the Warsaw Pact, “Ambinder’s account of a serious threat of global annihilation…is spellbinding…a masterpiece of recent history” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). The Brink serves as the definitive intelligence, nuclear, and national security history of one of the most precarious times in recent memory and “shows the consequences of nuclear buildups, sometimes-careless language, and nervous leaders. Now, more than ever, those consequences matter” (USA TODAY).

Download or read book China on the Brink written by Callum Henderson and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1999 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Callum Henderson seeks to shatter the myths that China is Asia's growing late-20th century superpower. He asserts that China as a nation, has unlimited potential, but its fundamental strengths mask major weaknesses that include defence, diplomacy and inter-Asian relations.

Download or read book Brink written by Chelsea Ramsey and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unnoticed by everyone, Luke had stayed frozen in his spot. He stared, unseeing, at the spot in space where Grant's head had been. His eyes were wide and unbelieving. What did I just do?" Luke has to come to terms with a newfound power and responsibility that has unceremoniously been thrown on his lap. Seemingly alone, with nobody to share his frustrations, he has to make a decision that nobody else can. A decision that can either lead to the harnessing of power for a greater cause, or one that can lead to his ultimate destruction. What is happening to Luke? What is the presence that watches him from afar and seems to trigger the power that flows through his veins? In this story of self-discovery, reunification, and mystery, journey with Luke, his friends, and his family as he strives to find out what is driving him to the brink of his own sanity. Step into a reality turned fantasy with him as he discovers more about his origins and the secrets that he never knew existed...until they unravelled before him.

Download or read book Brianna on the Brink written by Nicole McInnes and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A one-night stand has life-altering consequences for popular, sixteen-year-old Brianna, who must then accept help from the one person closest to her mistake.

Download or read book Against the Dead Hand written by Brink Lindsey and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-04-08 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A refreshing, insightful look into the political and economicdynamics driving globalization today Globalization: it's earlier than you think. That's the provocativemessage of Against the Dead Hand, which traces the rise and fall ofthe century-long dream of central planning and top-down control andits impact on globalization-revealing the extent to which the "deadhand" of the old collectivist dream still shapes the contours oftoday's world economy. Mixing historical narrative,thought-provoking arguments, and on-the-scene reporting andinterviews, Brink Lindsey shows how the economy has grown up amidstthe wreckage of the old regime-detailing how that wreckageconstrains the present and obscures the future. He conveys aclearer picture of globalization's current state than the currentconventional wisdom, providing a framework for anticipating thefuture direction of the world economy.

Download or read book The Missile Crisis written by Elie Abel and published by Bantam Books. This book was released on 1968 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: President Kennedy's decisive action during the 1962 nuclear confrontation between Russia and the U.S. over missle sites in Cuba is chronicled.

Download or read book The Curse of Brink s Mat written by Wensley Clarkson and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It wasn't only Britain's biggest heist, it became the bloodiest' Mail on Sunday The inside story of the 20th century's most lucrative armed robbery. On 26 November 1983 six armed robbers escaped with £28 million worth of gold bullion from a Brink's-Mat warehouse at London's Heathrow Airport. The Curse of Brink's-Mat reveals the pulse-racing full story of the crime itself before moving to its chilling aftermath, which still reverberates to this day. The heist made the careers of many of the underworld's biggest names, and changed the face of British crime forever but in the years that followed the robbery, many of those involved, innocent and guilty alike have been sent to an early grave. Two decades on, the death toll is still rising. Nobody knows more about that extraordinary morning's events than Wensley Clarkson, whose early career was spent as a reporter for Britain's biggest-selling newspapers, providing him with a wealth of insider contacts. From small-time crime in south-east London, to 'the heist of the century' and its bloody consequences, Wensley Clarkson's The Curse of Brink's-Mat is an epic tale of villainy, gold and revenge.

Download or read book Save Your Own written by Elisabeth Brink and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harvard Divinity School student Gillian Cormier-Brandenburg takes a job at a halfway house when her fellowship is revoked. Her encounters with the residents cause her to rethink her own goals.

Download or read book Brink of Eternity written by Caris Roane and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover a secret, sensual world of winged vampire warriors—and the women they crave. Meet the Guardians of Ascension.... Elise Jordan ended an intense relationship with her lover Gideon when she could no longer handle their being worlds apart...literally. Elise, a human living on Mortal Earth, just wasn't cut out for a vampire boyfriend from another dimension. Unfortunately, she never quite got over him—or the explosive passion they shared. But now, after denying her own fledgling powers for years, her increasing supernatural abilities and prophetic visions have become too much for her to deny. She's being called to ascension—where she'll become a winged vampire like Gideon, and face an army of lethal death vampires who thirst for her blood. Now she must harness all her powers in order to protect herself from her darkest enemies...and build a life with the one man who's claimed her soul. "Brink of Eternity" is an original Guardians of Ascension short story from Caris Roane.

Download or read book Awakened written by James S. Murray and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *** #1 The Sunday Times bestseller *** Publishers Weekly bestseller "This book is no joke. Get ready to not sleep tonight. Awakened does exactly what it advertises. Scary amazing fun." -- Brad Meltzer, bestselling author of The Escape Artist. “Awakened hits the high notes of Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child’s Relic and Scott Snyder’s The Wake [...] but its scope actually extends much further.” -- Kirkus *** The star of truTV’s hit show Impractical Jokers—alongside veteran sci-fi and horror writer Darren Wearmouth—delivers a chilling and wickedly fun supernatural novel in the vein of The Strain, in which a beautiful new subway line in New York City unearths an ancient dark horror that threatens the city’s utter destruction and the balance of civilization itself. After years of waiting, New York's newest subway line is finally ready, an express train that connects the city with the burgeoning communities across the Hudson River. The shining jewel of this state-of-the-art line is a breathtaking visitors’ pavilion beneath the river. Major dignitaries, including New York City’s Mayor and the President of the United States, are in attendance for the inaugural run, as the first train slowly pulls in. Under the station’s bright ceiling lights, the shiny silver cars gleam. But as the train comes closer into view, a far different scene becomes visible. All the train’s cars are empty. All the cars’ interiors are drenched in blood. As chaos descends, all those in the pavilion scramble to get out. But the horror is only beginning. High levels of deadly methane fill the tunnels. The structure begins to flood. For those who don’t drown, choke or spark an explosion, another terrifying danger awaits—the thing that killed all those people on the train. It’s out there…and it’s coming. There's something living beneath New York City, and it's not happy we've woken it up.

Download or read book The Moral Wager written by Malcolm Murray and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-05 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the following chapters, I offer an evolutionary account of morality and from that extrapolate a version of contractarianism I call consent theory. Game theory helps to highlight the evolution of morality as a resolution of interpersonal conflicts under strategic negotiation. It is this emphasis on strategic negotiation that underwrites the idea of consent. Consent theory differs from other contractarian models by abandoning reliance on rational self-interest in favour of evolutionary adaptation. From this, more emphasis will be placed on consent as natural convergence rather than consent as an idealization. My picture of contractarianism, then, ends up looking more like the relativist model offered by Harman, rather than the rational (or pseudo-rational) model offered by Gauthier, let alone the Kantian brands of Rawls or Scanlon. So at least some of my discussion will dwell on why it is no loss to abandon hope for the universal, categorical morality that rational models promise. In the introduction, I offer the betting analogy that underwrites the remaining picture. There are some bets where the expected utility is positive, though the odds of winning on this particular occasion are exceedingly low. In such cases, we cannot hope to give an argument that taking the bet is rational. The only thing we can say is that those predisposed to take this kind of bet on these kinds of occasions will do better than those with other dispositions, so long as such games occur often enough.

Download or read book Chain of Voices written by Andre Brink and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a farm near the Cape Colony in the early nineteenth century, a slave rebellion kills three and leaves eleven others condemned to death. The rebellion's leader, Galant, was raised alongside the boys who would become his masters. His first victim, Nicholas van der Merwe, might have been his brother. As the many layers of Andre Brink's novel unfold, it becomes clear that the violent uprising is as much a culmination of family tensions as it is an outcry against the oppression of slavery. Spanning three generations and narrated in the voices of both the living and the dead, A Chain of Voices is reminiscent of William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!; it is a beautiful and haunting illustration of racism's plague on South Africa.

Download or read book Brink s End Book Three written by Odette C. Bell and published by Odette C. Bell. This book was released on with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the end of the multiverse nears, Frost and her team must fight or die. Death will bring the end for all. The Underside will try everything they can to split the Guardians apart, and they’ll concentrate on Harvey and Rae. For both have secrets. And both could save the multiverse. But to get to the truth, they’ll have to fight harder. Tatiana wants revenge, and she won’t stop until she’s let her absurd war swallow all. But just when it seems there’s no hope, hope will come, and the Guardians will rise. But you can’t rise forever. What goes up, must come down. Even if the thing that is rising is the multiverse and the fall will never end. … Brink’s End follows a cold-hearted mech-pilot and a mysterious alien fighting to stop an ancient enemy from rising. If you love your space operas with action, heart, and a splash of romance, grab Brink’s End Book Three today and soar free with an Odette C. Bell series. Brink’s End is the 4th Supreme Outer Guardian series. A massive, exciting, and heroic sci-fi world where the day is always saved and hearts are always won, each series can be read separately, so plunge in today.

Download or read book Brink s End Book Four written by Odette C. Bell and published by Odette C. Bell. This book was released on with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Underside can’t wait any longer. Every piece is now in place. They just have to end the game. But Frost and her Guardians won’t give up easily. As Morpheus unravels, Kathleen and Mattias are thrust into the heart of an Underside ship. But only Rae and Harvey can save the day. As they’re pulled further into the Underside’s plot, their enemies unwittingly pull them closer together. And once they’ve finally found one another, they will never be pulled apart again. Because it’s time to save the multiverse once and of all. … Brink’s End follows a cold-hearted mech-pilot and a mysterious alien fighting to stop an ancient enemy from rising. If you love your space operas with action, heart, and a splash of romance, grab Brink’s End Book Four today and soar free with an Odette C. Bell series. Brink’s End is the 4th Supreme Outer Guardian series. A massive, exciting, and heroic sci-fi world where the day is always saved and hearts are always won, each series can be read separately, so plunge in today.

Download or read book Brink s End Book One written by Odette C. Bell and published by Odette C. Bell. This book was released on with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harvey Brink has one thing going for him. He never gives up. Which is exactly what the Supreme Outer Guardian, Commander Frost, needs now. Because hell is on its way. When she receives a warning that a dangerous piece of technology has been stolen by her greatest enemy, the Underside, she hopes she has time. She doesn’t. The Underside have already deployed it, and they’re coming for her. But Harvey stands in their way. A self-processed cold-hearted soldier, all he wants to do is spend time in his mech, detached from reality and far away from people. When an accident sends him halfway across the multiverse and deposits him at the feet of the mysterious Rae, Harvey’s solitude ends. He and Rae are thrust headfirst into a fight for everything. With no time to breathe, they’ll be pushed from planet to planet as they unravel the Underside’s dangerous new operation. To win, they’ll need to find out who they are, what they want, and most importantly, what can tie them together before they’re broken apart for good. … Brink’s End follows a cold-hearted mech-pilot and a mysterious alien fighting to stop an ancient enemy from rising. If you love your space operas with action, heart, and a splash of romance, grab Brink’s End Book One today and soar free with an Odette C. Bell series. Brink’s End is the 4th Supreme Outer Guardian series. A massive, exciting, and heroic sci-fi world where the day is always saved and hearts are always won, each series can be read separately, so plunge in today.