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Book Cascade  Unapologetic

Download or read book Cascade Unapologetic written by Pamela Ann and published by Pamela Ann Author. This book was released on with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the sands of time, it shifts, it's mercurial … unpredictable. I grew up stern, detached, like a person looking through glass, observing. But everything had come to the forefront, and nothing could ever prepare me for what the next chapter entailed. I could no longer be the observer but would become the one being observed. He ceaselessly watched, clutching me like a disease. His poison gradually possessed me until I was fully submerged under his twisted spell. The dark side of love—his perverse love. I was out for blood. Anyone would do.

Book The Blue Cascade

Download or read book The Blue Cascade written by Mike Scotti and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this searing and beautifully written memoir, Marine Lieutenant and CNN Op-Ed contributor Mike Scotti charts a course from the front lines of Iraq back home to New York, showing how sometimes the hardest battle is the one after the war. Sometimes the hardest battle is the one after the war. As one of the soldiers on the front line of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Lieutenant Scotti was taught that weakness is what gets you killed: no hesitation, focus your energies on your objective, and complete the mission. Upon returning from war, Scotti approached his new life the same way. He ignored the creeping depression and numbness he called "The Blue Cascade" and charged ahead toward his goal to get an MBA, secure a high-paying finance job, and retire young and rich. But he was being eaten away inside, and scenes of drunken emotion and raging violence were becoming more and more frequent. Years after returning from active combat, he eventually found himself contemplating suicide. Through a series of powerful events, Scotti was ultimately able to find a path to healing and begin his journey back to life, finally emerging with the following wisdom for fellow sufferers of post-traumatic stress:It's ok if you are not ok.

Book Unleashed

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frances Frei
  • Publisher : Harvard Business Press
  • Release : 2020-06-02
  • ISBN : 1633697053
  • Pages : 269 pages

Download or read book Unleashed written by Frances Frei and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Unleashed is worth an afternoon of your time, whether or not you are already a leader. It is sparkily written and personal, drawing on the experiences of co-authors (and spouses) Frei and Morriss."— Financial Times Leadership isn't easy. It takes grit, courage, and vision, among other things, that can be hard to come by on your toughest days. When leaders and aspiring leaders seek out advice, they're often told to try harder. Dig deeper. Look in the mirror and own your natural-born strengths and fix any real or perceived career-limiting deficiencies. Frances Frei and Anne Morriss offer a different worldview. They argue that this popular leadership advice glosses over the most important thing you do as a leader: build others up. Leadership isn't about you. It's about how effective you are at empowering other people—and making sure this impact endures even in your absence. As Frei and Morriss show through inspiring stories from ancient Rome to present-day Silicon Valley, the origins of great leadership are found, paradoxically, not in worrying about your own status and advancement, but in the unrelenting focus on other people's potential. Unleashed provides radical advice for the practice of leadership today. Showing how the boldest, most effective leaders use a special combination of trust, love, and belonging to create an environment in which other people can excel, Frei and Morriss offer practical, battle-tested tools—based on their work with companies such as Uber, Riot Games, WeWork, and others—along with interviews and stories from their own personal experience, to make these ideas come alive. This book is your indispensable guide for unleashing greatness in other people . . . and, ultimately, in yourself. To learn more, please visit theleadersguide.com.

Book Permutation City

    Book Details:
  • Author : Greg Egan
  • Publisher : Greg Egan
  • Release : 1994-04-26
  • ISBN : 192224001X
  • Pages : 275 pages

Download or read book Permutation City written by Greg Egan and published by Greg Egan. This book was released on 1994-04-26 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Durham keeps making Copies of himself: software simulations of his own brain and body which can be run in virtual reality, albeit seventeen times more slowly than real time. He wants them to be his guinea pigs for a set of experiments about the nature of artificial intelligence, time, and causality, but they keep changing their mind and baling out on him, shutting themselves down. Maria Deluca is an Autoverse addict; she’s unemployed and running out of money, but she can’t stop wasting her time playing around with the cellular automaton known as the Autoverse, a virtual world that follows a simple set of mathematical rules as its “laws of physics”. Paul makes Maria a very strange offer: he asks her to design a seed for an entire virtual biosphere able to exist inside the Autoverse, modelled right down to the molecular level. The job will pay well, and will allow her to indulge her obsession. There has to be a catch, though, because such a seed would be useless without a simulation of the Autoverse large enough to allow the resulting biosphere to grow and flourish — a feat far beyond the capacity of all the computers in the world.

Book Cascade

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pamela Ann
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-09-09
  • ISBN : 9781692049560
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Cascade written by Pamela Ann and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-09 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the sands of time, it shifts, it's mercurial ... unpredictable.I grew up stern, detached, like a person looking through glass, observing. But everything had come to the forefront, and nothing could ever prepare me for what the next chapter entailed.I could no longer be the observer but would become the one being observed.He ceaselessly watched, clutching me like a disease. His poison gradually possessed me until I was fully submerged under his twisted spell.The dark side of love-his perverse love.I was out for blood. Anyone would do.

Book Gumbo Ya Ya

    Book Details:
  • Author : Aurielle Marie
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Release : 2021-09-21
  • ISBN : 0822988380
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book Gumbo Ya Ya written by Aurielle Marie and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gumbo Ya Ya, Aurielle Marie’s stunning debut, is a cauldron of hearty poems exploring race, gender, desire, and violence in the lives of Black gxrls, soaring against the backdrop of a contemporary South. These poems are loud, risky, and unapologetically rooted in the glory of Black gxrlhood. The collection opens with a heartrending indictment of injustice. What follows is a striking reimagination of the world, one where no Black gxrl dies “by the barrel of the law” or “for loving another Black gxrl.” Part familial archival, part map of Black resistance, Gumbo Ya Ya catalogs the wide gamut of Black life at its intersections, with punching cultural commentary and a poetic voice that holds tenderness and sharpness in tandem. It asks us to chew upon both the rich meat and the tough gristle, and in doing so we walk away more whole than we began and thoroughly satisfied. Excerpt from “transhistorical for the x in my gxrls” What I mean is, this country is mine if only because from my mouth I spit its loam and unspun a noose. I won’t exploit the only metaphor they gave us willingly, and instead hunt for other vicious things to make a muse. I earned this country. I owe it nothing. With my infinite, infant hand, I manipulated a death sentence into a compound-complex one. from the umbilical, I bled a life worth writing down and in a century’s time, there will be another word created still for the weeping magic of this same story: a Black gxrl’s first breath.

Book The Decline of Black Men s Attendance In Church

Download or read book The Decline of Black Men s Attendance In Church written by Dr. Gregory Tate and published by Jat Publications. This book was released on 2024-02-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ecclesiastical Dissonance" explores the profound challenge of the absence of Black men in contemporary Black churches in the United States. Using empirical data, historical analysis, and biblical exploration, the book unveils the factors contributing to the decline in Black male participation in church services from the 1960s to the present. It also examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, revealing a longstanding challenge. The narrative delves into national implications, and historical and biblical dimensions, and presents statistical data for understanding absenteeism effects and potential solutions. In a compelling call to action, the book invites readers to actively engage in this crucial conversation and offers opportunities for further involvement. For inquiries and engagement, contact the author at [email protected]. Join the dialogue to foster understanding and drive meaningful change within the ecclesiastical landscape.

Book Knightmare on Wall Street

Download or read book Knightmare on Wall Street written by Edgar Perez and published by . This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book accounts the terrifying hours following Knight Capital's August 1, 2012 trading debacle, with news-breaking research regarding the firm's 17 years of tumultuous existence as an independent company. Knightmare on Wall Street is the definitive behind-the-scenes story of Knight Capital. The firm, founded by Kenneth Pasternak and Walter Raquet in 1995, had seen its fortunes change as U.S. regulators made a series of changes in the structure of financial markets and computers were progressively expanding their share of trading. The Flash Crash, the infamous 1,000 point drop of the DJIA on May 6, 2010 (the largest one-day point decline in history), illustrated how market structure problems could almost instantaneously cascade from one market participant to the rest. This book provides a fascinating account of what it took to elevate the firm to the cusp of the retail investing revolution of the late 1990s, to struggle through booms and busts, and to bring the firm down, to end up ultimately being ignominiously bought up by a competitor."--Extracted from Edgar Perez website.

Book Useful Wisdom

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anthony B. Robinson
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2020-03-18
  • ISBN : 1532683456
  • Pages : 101 pages

Download or read book Useful Wisdom written by Anthony B. Robinson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-03-18 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We've got a list of questions, issues, stuff we're dealing with. We want your input, your thoughts on this stuff." Such were the origins of this little book. Two young clergy, early in their first call, imagined that I might have some useful wisdom to pass on based on my own years in ministry. Something like this was once standard preparation. Young people learned a profession like law, ministry, or medicine by apprenticing themselves to one seasoned in the practice. Not only has that way of learning largely vanished but we now live in times of increasing segregation and suspicion between different generations. Still, these two millennials bucked the trends. They thought they might have something to learn from an old boomer. The result is this collection of letters: personal, wry, direct, and honest. Full of both hope and realism about the church and ministry. This collection will be a welcome companion for young, and for many not so young, clergy trying to get a handle on ministry in the midst of a time that is full of change and challenge.

Book The Anglican Tradition from a Postcolonial Perspective

Download or read book The Anglican Tradition from a Postcolonial Perspective written by Kwok Pui-lan and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a major scholar, a postcolonial perspective on key current and historical issues in Anglicanism, foregrounding the voices of theologians and church leaders from the Global South. In recent years, the Anglican Communion has been consumed by debates about gender, sexuality, authority, and biblical interpretation, which have frequently divided along North/South lines. Much of these controversies stem from the colonial history of Anglicanism. Written by a pioneer in postcolonial theology, this groundbreaking volume challenges Eurocentrism and racism in the Anglican Communion by highlighting the voices of theologians and church leaders from the Global South. The Anglican Tradition from a Postcolonial Perspective scrutinizes Anglican theology and history to advocate for the decolonization of the Church. It examines controversies on Christianity and the social order, economic justice, worship, gender and sexuality, women’s leadership, and the Church’s mission in a religiously pluralistic world.

Book Cosmopolitanism and Women   s Fashion in Ghana

Download or read book Cosmopolitanism and Women s Fashion in Ghana written by Christopher L. Richards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews, this book delves into the rich world of Ghanaian fashion, demonstrating how, over time, local dress styles and materials have been fused with global trends to create innovative, high fashion garments that reflect a distinctly Ghanaian cosmopolitanism. Ghana has a complex and diverse fashion culture which was in evidence before independence in 1957 and has continued to grow in reputation in the postcolonial period. In this book, Christopher Richards reflects on the contributions of the country’s female fashion designers, who have employed fashion to innovate existing, culturally relevant dress styles, challenge gendered forms of dress, and make bold statements regarding women’s sexuality. Treated as artworks, the book examines specific garments to illustrate the inherent complexity of their design and how fashion is often embedded with a blending of personal histories, cultural practices and global inspirations. Reflecting in particular on the works of Laura Quartey, Letitia Obeng, Juliana Kweifio-Okai, Beatrice Arthur and Aisha Ayensu, this book makes an important and timely contribution to art history, fashion studies, anthropology, history, women’s studies and African Studies. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Book Oh the Glory of It All

Download or read book Oh the Glory of It All written by Sean Wilsey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-04-25 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In the beginning we were happy. And we were always excessive. So in the beginning we were happy to excess.” With these opening lines Sean Wilsey takes us on an exhilarating tour of life in the strangest, wealthiest, and most grandiose of families. Sean's mother is a 1980s society-page staple, regularly entertaining Black Panthers and movie stars in her marble and glass penthouse. His enigmatic father uses a jet helicopter to drop Sean off at the video arcade and lectures his son on proper hygiene in public restrooms. When Sean, "the kind of child who sings songs to sick flowers," turns nine years old, his father divorces his mother and marries her best friend. Sean's life blows apart. His mother has a "vision" of salvation that requires packing her Louis Vuitton luggage and traveling the globe, a retinue of multiracial children in tow. Follow Sean as he candidly recounts his life growing up in a wealthy family all while discovering who he is amongst San Francisco's social elite.

Book Prayer in the Night

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tish Harrison Warren
  • Publisher : InterVarsity Press
  • Release : 2021-01-26
  • ISBN : 0830846808
  • Pages : 214 pages

Download or read book Prayer in the Night written by Tish Harrison Warren and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we trust God in the dark? Framed around a nighttime prayer of Compline, Tish Harrison Warren explores human vulnerability, suffering, and God's seeming absence as she recalls her own experience navigating a time of doubt and loss. This book offers a prayerful and frank approach to the difficulties in our ordinary lives at work, at home, and in a world filled with uncertainty.

Book Unexpected Journey

    Book Details:
  • Author : Juliana N. Chang
  • Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
  • Release : 2021-03-18
  • ISBN : 1543763030
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book Unexpected Journey written by Juliana N. Chang and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An idle, frustrated old coconut falls from the tree into the stream and travels through a rough journey. Along the unexpected journey, it suffers injuries, but it encounters situations worse than its own. Its destiny is unknown, but its destination continues where the river runs in its channel. The worst part of its life begins when it gets stuck in the mud. The river's rough journey teaches it to endure hardship and appreciate being alive when it comes to rest involuntarily. It experiences physical development until its old self totally disappears. Then it becomes a coconut tree, a new creation. This time its existence serves a greater purpose because it brings joy to the whole village. Anyone could be that coconut, travelling through different stages of life's journey, experiencing temporary setbacks, and discovering a purpose at the end of the unexpected journey.

Book Glamour

    Book Details:
  • Author : San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2004-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300106408
  • Pages : 205 pages

Download or read book Glamour written by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalogue revises our understanding of glamour in the fields of fashion, industrial design, and architecture. Tracing glamour's trajectory from Hollywood's golden age to its present-day connotations of affluence, this illustrated volume presents an array of postwar couture, jewelry, automobile, furniture, and built and unbuilt architecture - all of which share an affinity for richly decorative patterning, complex layering, and sumptuous materials.

Book The Leader s Change Handbook

Download or read book The Leader s Change Handbook written by Jay A. Conger and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1999 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of Contents

Book Urban Public Spaces  Events  and Gun Violence

Download or read book Urban Public Spaces Events and Gun Violence written by Melvin Delgado and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: