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Book The Law of the Garbage Truck

    Book Details:
  • Author : David J. Pollay
  • Publisher : Sterling Publishing (NY)
  • Release : 2011-01-01
  • ISBN : 9781402788758
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book The Law of the Garbage Truck written by David J. Pollay and published by Sterling Publishing (NY). This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Law of the Garbage Truck, David J. Pollay shows us that by refusing to let others dump their "garbage" (negativity, anger, resentment) on us and letting it "pass by" instead, we become happier and more successful, both personally and professionally. And when we stop dumping garbage on others, we improve our relationships, strengthen our businesses and bring our communities together. This remarkable book shows us how to use this Law and helps us to avoid getting dumped on by rude, thoughtless and angry people, stop reliving the negative and fearing the future and focus on what can be controlled, not the negative things that can't be. It will help increase productivity, respect and cooperation and allow readers to gain the courage to enjoy every day and make a difference. Includes two powerful, insightful quizzes designed to help determine how much garbage you are accepting and how much you are dumping.

Book Why Smart People Do Dumb Things

Download or read book Why Smart People Do Dumb Things written by Mortimer R. Feinberg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1995-04-26 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culled from business headlines and corporate files, Why Smart People Do Dumb Things is an in-depth examination of the ultimate in boardroom breakdown--a postmortem of the mega-mistakes made by highly regarded leaders in business and public life. From the "New Coke" debacle to the poor subscription showing of the Olympic Triplecast to the swirling controversy of Whitewater, Feinberg describes how strong minds can misuse their power, and why bright people often seize upon--and advocate brilliantly--ideas that others recognize as ridiculous.

Book Stig of the Dump

Download or read book Stig of the Dump written by Clive King and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy befriends a young caveman in this modern children’s classic of friendship and adventure. Barney isn’t supposed to go near the chalk pit. His grandmother and sister both told him the edge could give way and he could fall in—but what else is he supposed to do on a miserable gray day? It’s not long before Barney falls into the pit and bumps his head. But where he lands is more than an old garbage dump: It’s a home. There’s a little hut built out of discarded junk, and more surprisingly, there’s a boy, about Barney’s age, inside. He speaks in grunts instead of English, wears a rabbit-skin loincloth, has shaggy black hair, and might be named something that sounds like “Stig.” Barney befriends him immediately. Together, Barney and Stig go on all sorts of adventures, building a chimney for Stig’s hut, joining a foxhunt, stopping robbers, and catching a leopard escaped from the circus! Barney and Stig’s escapades have been delighting children for more than fifty years, while addressing important topics such as bullying, recycling, and language barriers. This timeless classic is sure to captivate readers young and old with its wit, imagination, and sense of adventure.

Book The People s Republic of Everything

Download or read book The People s Republic of Everything written by Nick Mamatas and published by Tachyon Publications. This book was released on 2018-08-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Mamatas] is the People's Commissar of Awesome.” —China Miéville, author of Embassytown Welcome to the People's Republic of Everything—of course, you've been here for a long time already. Make yourself at home alongside a hitman who always tells the truth, no matter how reality has to twist itself to suit; electric matchstick girls who have teamed up with Friedrich Engels; a telepathic boy and his father's homemade nuclear bomb; a very bad date that births an unforgettable meme; and a dog who simply won't stop howling on social media. The People's Republic of Everything features a decade's worth of crimes, fantasies, original fiction, and the author's preferred text of the acclaimed short novel Under My Roof.

Book How People Make the World

Download or read book How People Make the World written by Hans Tendam and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A road-map for world-citizens. This original and profound work maps the world's most pressing political issues around ten challenges. Uniquely, this work bridges the gap between individual action and global issues. This work is written for politicians, administrators, journalists, and activists; for people in international agencies and associations; and most importantly, for every one of us who -- lucky enough to live in a democracy -- wants to act effectively and choose wisely.Subjects: '¢ The Atlas Syndrome '¢ How to Develop Civilization: From Confucius to Toynbee '¢ Cruelty, Torture and Terror '¢ Limits to Manageability '¢ Depletion and Pollution of the Environment '¢ Leisure and Unemployment in Post-Industrial Society '¢ The Politics of Democracy '¢ Injustice, Corruption and Revolt '¢ Struggling Nations at Odds '¢ Global Warfare '¢ Global Emergencies '¢ Nihilism '¢ Road Maps for World Citizens. With a preface by the Secretary-General of the Club of Rome

Book Toxic Timescapes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Simone M. Müller
  • Publisher : Ohio University Press
  • Release : 2023-01-17
  • ISBN : 0821447874
  • Pages : 454 pages

Download or read book Toxic Timescapes written by Simone M. Müller and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary environmental humanities volume that explores human-environment relationships on our permanently polluted planet. While toxicity and pollution are ever present in modern daily life, politicians, juridical systems, media outlets, scholars, and the public alike show great difficulty in detecting, defining, monitoring, or generally coming to terms with them. This volume’s contributors argue that the source of this difficulty lies in the struggle to make sense of the intersecting temporal and spatial scales working on the human and more-than-human body, while continuing to acknowledge race, class, and gender in terms of global environmental justice and social inequality. The term toxic timescapes refers to this intricate intersectionality of time, space, and bodies in relation to toxic exposure. As a tool of analysis, it unpacks linear understandings of time and explores how harmful substances permeate temporal and physical space as both event and process. It equips scholars with new ways of creating data and conceptualizing the past, present, and future presence and possible effects of harmful substances and provides a theoretical framework for new environmental narratives. To think in terms of toxic timescapes is to radically shift our understanding of toxicants in the complex web of life. Toxicity, pollution, and modes of exposure are never static; therefore, dose, timing, velocity, mixture, frequency, and chronology matter as much as the geographic location and societal position of those exposed. Together, these factors create a specific toxic timescape that lies at the heart of each contributor’s narrative. Contributors from the disciplines of history, human geography, science and technology studies, philosophy, and political ecology come together to demonstrate the complex reality of a toxic existence. Their case studies span the globe as they observe the intersection of multiple times and spaces at such diverse locations as former battlefields in Vietnam, aging nuclear-weapon storage facilities in Greenland, waste deposits in southern Italy, chemical facilities along the Gulf of Mexico, and coral-breeding laboratories across the world.

Book White s People s Webster

Download or read book White s People s Webster written by M. White and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The People s Illustrated Dictionary of the English Language

Download or read book The People s Illustrated Dictionary of the English Language written by Noah Webster and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Outrageous

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  • Author : Aaron Tredway
  • Publisher : Baker Books
  • Release : 2016-10-18
  • ISBN : 1493405519
  • Pages : 191 pages

Download or read book Outrageous written by Aaron Tredway and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awaken to a Faith That Has No Bounds All over the country, people are waking up from the American Dream. More than a house, a car, and 2.5 kids, what people truly yearn for is a life of possibility, potential, and adventure. We believe God is able to do more than we hope or imagine, but we're stuck living in the tension between our ordinary life and the extraordinary adventures that might be just around the corner. In this energizing book, globe-trotting former athlete Aaron Tredway offers liberation from a life without purpose, calling readers to pursue lives of unexpected opportunity amid their everyday circumstances. Entertaining, engaging, and often unconventional, Outrageous challenges us to wake up and embrace a faith that can move us, shape us, and propel us to love God and others with greater significance. Each chapter unfolds a new true-life adventure fueled by faith and the extraordinary life Jesus promised to those who believe.

Book Indigenous Peoples as Subjects of International Law

Download or read book Indigenous Peoples as Subjects of International Law written by Irene Watson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 500 years, Indigenous laws have been disregarded. Many appeals for their recognition under international law have been made, but have thus far failed – mainly because international law was itself shaped by colonialism. How, this volume asks, might international law be reconstructed, so that it is liberated from its colonial origins? With contributions from critical legal theory, international law, politics, philosophy and Indigenous history, this volume pursues a cross-disciplinary analysis of the international legal exclusion of Indigenous Peoples, and of its relationship to global injustice. Beyond the issue of Indigenous Peoples’ rights, however, this analysis is set within the broader context of sustainability; arguing that Indigenous laws, philosophy and knowledge are not only legally valid, but offer an essential approach to questions of ecological justice and the co-existence of all life on earth.

Book Subsidizing Capitalism

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  • Author : Tamar Diana Wilson
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2012-02-01
  • ISBN : 0791482995
  • Pages : 229 pages

Download or read book Subsidizing Capitalism written by Tamar Diana Wilson and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mexico, self-employed brickmakers support capitalist enterprise by providing bricks to build hotels, factories, office buildings, and shopping malls at costs lower than those based on profit-making principles. Combining Chayanovian and neo-Marxist approaches, Subsidizing Capitalism asserts that the economic activities of these self-employed brickmakers may be considered counterhegemonic because they avoid proletarianization in the formal sector. Tamar Diana Wilson discusses the similarities between peasants and brickmakers, the structural position of garbage pickers in relation to brickmakers, the trajectory from piece worker to petty commodity producer to petty capitalist, the economic value of women's and children's work as part of the family labor force, and how the neopatriarchal household is intrinsic to petty commodity production. Interspersed throughout are short stories and poems that offer the brickmakers' perspectives and provide a rarely seen look into their lives.

Book Textbook of Children s Environmental Health

Download or read book Textbook of Children s Environmental Health written by Ruth A. Etzel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 937 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With new and updated content on biodiversity and chemicals in food, Textbook of Children's Environmental Health, Second Edition remains the quintessential textbook for the study of the environmental hazards that cause disease in childre

Book The Vassar Miscellany Monthly

Download or read book The Vassar Miscellany Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oversight Hearing on the Implementation of the Job Training Partnership Act

Download or read book Oversight Hearing on the Implementation of the Job Training Partnership Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Address Unknown

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  • Author : James Wright
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-07-05
  • ISBN : 1351533916
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book Address Unknown written by James Wright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the nature of homelessness, its multiple causes, and its demographic, economic, sociological, and social policy antecedents. Finding the origins of the problem to be social and political rather than economic, Wright (human relations, Tulane) outlines remedies based on existing and modified

Book Yuri Espoir  Volume 1

Download or read book Yuri Espoir Volume 1 written by Mai Naoi and published by TOKYOPOP. This book was released on 2022-04-29 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After finding out she is to be forced into an marriage of convenience as soon as she graduates high school, Kokoro sees her life ending before her eyes at her father's wishes. And so in her final year of high school, she decides to indulge in her love of other women, and create an incredible sketchbook of lesbian romance to leave behind as her legacy. As she observes the young women of her town, she learns more about their desires, their struggles, and the unpredictable whims of love.

Book Marketing Democracy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Julia Paley
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2001-04-02
  • ISBN : 9780520935747
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book Marketing Democracy written by Julia Paley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-04-02 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid protests against the Pinochet regime, a group of población(shantytown) residents came together in 1984 to challenge poor health care in their community and to denounce military rule. How did their organization respond seven years later when Chile's transition to democracy brought an end to dictatorship but no clear solution to ongoing health problems? Marketing Democracy shows how the exercise of power and the strategies of social movements transformed with the transition from a military to an elected-civilian regime in Chile. The term "marketing democracy" refers first to how contemporary democracies are shaped by transnational market forces, and second to how politicians have promoted democracy with the twin goals of attracting foreign capital and diminishing social movements.