Download or read book Heft written by Liz Moore and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An obese former academic shut-in and a poor kid dreaming of a successful baseball career are linked together by a former student who transforms their lives.

Download or read book Heft on Wheels written by Mike Magnuson and published by Crown. This book was released on 2005-05-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take one very large guy. Add booze, cigarettes, and an extreme amount of junk food. Mix in a wry, self-effacing wit. Throw in a bike. The result? Heft on Wheels, a potently funny look at turning your life around, one insanely unrealistic goal at a time. Not that long ago, Mike Magnuson was a self-described lummox with a bicycle. In the space of three months, he lost seventy-five pounds, quit smoking, stopped drinking, and morphed from the big guy at the back of the pack into a lean, mean cycling machine. Today, Mike is a 175-pound athlete competing in some of the most difficult one-day racing events in America. This irreverent and inspiring memoir charts every hilarious detail of his transformation, from the horrors of skin-tight XXL biking shorts to the miseries of nicotine withdrawal. Heft on Wheels is an unforgettable book about getting from one place to another, in more ways than one.

Download or read book A Person Of Heft written by Bolaji Olatunde and published by Latunes Publishers. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 2015. Nigeria has a new president who has promised change and prosperity for Nigerians. Tomi Makinde is a young Nigerian professional woman struggling to get a foothold in corporate Nigeria. As her marketing career grows, she finds herself catapulted fast to unexpected heights due to a chance encounter. As she climbs the corporate ladder, she contends with intense power play and betrayal. Despite her professional success, she is haunted by the memories of her parents' failed marriage, she is afraid of letting her guard down to allow love in. Demola Gbolahan is a young accountant in who seems to have it made.His colleagues, family and friends are mystified by his unmarried status. They continually pile the pressure for him to get hitched. As tries to fix his marital status, he has to battle with high stakes workplace corruption. Wayne Crawly, young, successful British engineer, is keen on making the most of the Nigerian business environment, and enjoying the various cultures on offer. From all appearances, he is the quintessential expatriate, a gentleman who can do no harm, until push comes to shove.What do these three individuals have in common, apart from their youth? They all live in Abuja when their paths cross. Their lives intertwine and intersect in more ways than they bargain for in this story of sleaze, cut-throat corporate competition, malfeasance and romance set in Nigeria's capital city. With a supporting cast of wily and eccentric characters, the reader is certain to live the Abuja life through various eyes.

Download or read book The Future of Catholic Higher Education written by James Heft and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After many years of scholarship, administrative experience and leadership in Catholic higher education, James Heft has written a book that draws upon many academic disciplines to paint a picture of the past, the current situation (challenges, strengths and weaknesses) of Catholic universities, and after identifying its foundational pillars, points the way to a future that is open to modern culture without capitulating to it, embraces Catholic intellectual traditions without fossilizing them, and presents a vision of its relationship to the hierarchy that is respectful, independent, faithful and dynamic"--

Download or read book Ecological Psychology in Context written by Harry Heft and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001-07-01 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Harry Heft examines the historical and theoretical foundations of James J. Gibson's ecological psychology in 20th century thought, and in turn, integrates ecological psychology and analyses of sociocultural processes. A thesis of the book is that knowing is rooted in the direct experience of meaningful environmental objects and events present in individual-environment processes and at the level of collective, social settings. Ecological Psychology in Context: *traces the primary lineage of Gibson's ecological approach to William James's philosophy of radical empiricism; *illuminates how the work of James's student and Gibson's mentor, E.B. Holt, served as a catalyst for the development of Gibson's framework and as a bridge to James's work; *reveals how ecological psychology reciprocally can advance Jamesian studies by resolving some of the theoretical difficulties that kept James from fully realizing a realist philosophy; *broadens the scope of Gibson's framework by proposing a synthesis between it and the ecological program of Roger Barker, who discovered complex systems operating at the level of collective, social processes; *demonstrates ways in which the psychological domain can be extended to properties of the environment rendering its features meaningful, publicly accessible, and distributed across person-environment processes; and *shows how Gibson's work points the way toward overcoming the gap between experimental psychology and the humanities. Intended for scholars and students in the areas of ecological and environmental psychology, theoretical and historical psychology, cognitive science, developmental psychology, anthropology, and philosophy.

Download or read book Passing on the Faith written by James L. Heft and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beginning, the Abrahamic faiths—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—have stressed the importance of transmitting religious identity from one generation to the next. Today, that sustaining mission has never been more challenged. Will young people have a faith to guide them? How can faith traditions anchor religious attachments in this secular, skeptical culture? The fruit of a historic gathering of scholars and religious leaders across three faiths and many disciplines, this important book reports on the religious lives of young people in today’s world. It’s also a unique inventory of creative and thoughtful responses from churches, synagogues, and mosques working to keep religion a significant force in those lives. The essays are grouped thematically. Opening the book, Melchor Sanchez de Toca and Nancy Ammerman explore fundamental issues that have an impact on religion—from the cultural effects of global consumerism and personal technology to pluralism and individualism. In Part Two, leading investigators present three leading studies of religiosity among young people and college students in the United States, illuminating the gap between personal values and organized religion—and the emergence of new, different forms of spirituality and faith. How religious institutions deal with these challenges forms the heart of the book—in portraits of “best practices” developed to revitalize traditional institutions, from a synagogue in New York City and a Muslim youth camp in California to the famed French Catholic community of the late Brother John of Taizé. Finally, Jack Miles and Diane Winston weave the findings into a broader perspective of the future of religious belief, practice, and feeling in a changing world. Filled with real-world wisdom, Passing the Faith will be an essential resource for anyone seeking to understand what religions must, and can, do to inspire a vigorous faith in the next generation.

Download or read book David Adjaye written by Art Institute of Chicago and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "David Adjaye, a major international figure in architecture and design, transforms complex ideas into approachable, innovative structures. The book contains an introduction by Okwui Enwezor and Zèoe Ryan; an essay by Adjaye himself; analyses of his master plans, transnational architecture, monuments and memorials, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.; and portfolios of his work, grouped by theme"--

Download or read book ReSingled Survive and Then Thrive written by Laura Heft and published by Growoptimism. This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broken heart is never easy to heal quickly, but what if you had the tools to heal it correctly? What if you had the tools to get a better relationship the next time? After experiencing a tough breakup herself, behavioral scientist, Laura Heft Ph.D. took what she knows as an expert in optimism, positive thinking, and behavior, and packaged it as an in-depth yet easy-to-understand guide for you to follow. This book is specifically designed to help you use the same behavioral science, tools, and awareness to recover from a breakup faster and get the relationship you want next time around. You'll learn how to: 1) More quickly manage the breakup in a healthy way 2) Leverage the science of the mind-body connection 3) Position yourself to get the ideal relationship sooner ReSingled is backed with scientific research to help you understand how you can create lasting change. It includes guidance on: surviving the breakup, the decision to let it go or get back together, tips for thriving, healing the painful emotions that torment us after a breakup, and the path forward for your ideal relationship.

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Download or read book heft written by Doyali Islam and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning Toronto-based poet Doyali Islam comes a second collection of poems that investigates rupture and resilience. GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE FINALIST PAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARD FINALIST TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY FINALIST How does one inhabit a world in which "the moon / & the drone hang in the same sky"? How can one be at home in one's own body in the presence of suspected autoimmune illness, chronic/recurrent pain, and a society that bears down with a particular construct of normal female sexual experience? What might a daughter salvage within a fraught relationship with a cancer-stricken father? Uncannily at ease with both high lyricism and formal innovation and invention, these poems are unafraid to lift up and investigate burdens and ruptures of all kinds--psychic, social, cultural, physical, and political. Providing continuity over the poet's visually-arresting forms--including Islam's self-termed split sonnets, double sonnets, and parallel poems--is allied remembrance of the resilience of the Palestinian people. Yet, the work doesn't always stray far from home, with a quintet of astro-poems that weave together myth and memory. Here is a poet small in stature, unwilling to abandon to silence small histories, small life forms, and the small courages and beauties of the ordinary hour. In these rigorous, intimate, and luminous poems, the spirit of the everyday and the spirit of witness bind fiercely to one another. heft is a ledger of tenderness, survival, and risk.

Download or read book The Ascendant Advisor written by Richard Heft and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The trajectory of the financial advisory profession hit an inflection point during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the industry was already challenging for advisors prior to the pandemic, largely as a result of a changing regulatory environment and evolving products, services and technologies, COVID-19 compounded these challenges and made face-to-face business development, an advisor's bread and butter, even more difficult. So, what are financial advisors supposed to do about this? Curl up and hide? Coast for the next decade or so before simply retiring? Not going to happen. Advisors are among the largest cohort of entrepreneurs, most of whom built their business from the ground up. They will fight to survive and thrive in their new reality. The financial advisor's path forward requires a shift in mindset and a little bit of creativity. Now more than ever, financial advisors need strategies to position themselves as subject matter experts by leveraging all the technological and social media platforms available to them. And they need strategies grounded in content creation to better position themselves against the competition and to help them build stronger businesses for today, and for the future. Written by two of the financial services industry's leading marketing professionals, The Ascendant Advisor is likely the most important book a financial advisor will read when building and maintaining the value of their business. It provides page after page of easy-to-learn and easy-to-use strategies for financial advisors to create engaging content, as well as offering strategies for distributing that content to the right audiences. The outcome of reading and implementing the strategies offered within The Ascendant Advisor is stronger relationships and a business that is valuable enough to pass on to the next generation, or to sell for a life-changing profit.

Download or read book Build a Better Book Club written by Harold Heft and published by Macmillan Canada. This book was released on 1999 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Heft A Novel written by Liz Moore and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-01-23 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A stunningly sad and heroically hopeful tale…This is a beautiful novel about relationships of the most makeshift kind." —O, The Oprah Magazine Arthur Opp weighs 550 pounds and hasn’t left his rambling Brooklyn home in a decade. Twenty miles away, in Yonkers, seventeen-year-old Kel Keller navigates life as the poor kid in a rich school and pins his hopes on what seems like a promising baseball career. The link between this unlikely pair is Kel’s mother, Charlene, a former student of Arthur’s. Told with warmth and intelligence through Arthur and Kel’s own quirky and lovable voices, Heft is the story of two improbable heroes whose connection transforms both their lives.

Download or read book United States of America V Heft written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Heft for the Homeland written by David L. Birdsall and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-04-03 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: play, from "Spheres of Accommodation"

Download or read book Linguistische Berichte Heft 274 written by Markus Steinbach and published by Helmut Buske Verlag. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beiträge aus Forschung und Anwendung – Emanuela Sanfelici: On the strength of D0: case resolution phenomena in free relative clauses Abstract: This paper proposes a novel account of free relative clauses (RCs), which associates case resolution patterns to the typology of D0 heads à la Longobardi (1994), Guardiano & Longobardi (2005). Although free RCs generally obey matching requirements, certain languages tolerate configurations where the case assigned by the matrix clause to the nominal phrase containing the free RC conflicts with that assigned within the RC. Languages vary as to whether they allow for case conflicting configurations and apply case resolution, and, if they do, as to whether the case conflict is resolved in compliance with that assigned from the matrix or the RC probe. By adopting a cartographic approach to free RCs, I account for the linguistic variation by means of two ingredients: (a) the property of the D0 head in a given language, strong vs. weak D0, and, in turn, of the feature-sharing mechanisms between D0 and the lower heads; (b) the operation of chain reduction phrased in terms of a subset relation. – Christian Hugo Hoffmann: Die Philosophie der Philosophie: Was zeichnet genuin philosophische Fragen aus? Abstract: Philosophy cannot be studied without becoming engaged in philosophy itself. Taking Timothy Williamson's seminal work "The Philosophy of Philosophy" as a point of departure for this analysis at hand, and a specific question therein, in his book, presented by him as genuinely philosophical, we discuss in this paper what characterizes distinguished philosophical questions and what does not. While Williamson responds critically to the so-called linguistic and conceptual turn considered central to (analytic) philosophy by con-tending that his chosen question, representative of many more, is philosophical but not even implicitly meta-linguistic or meta-conceptual, our contribution is different and three-fold: first, in homage to Williamson, we show that he might not achieve his argumentative goal. Going beyond the limited framework set by his monograph, we further argue, second and more generally, that the predicate "being a philosophical question" (such as his model question) suffers from vagueness. Finally, third, we derive implications from our investigation for the meta-philosophical answers of the Linguistic and Conceptual Turns. – Alexander Horn: Sprachgeschichtliche Stolperstellen im Geschichtscomic MOSAIK und ihr didaktisches Potential für den Deutschunterricht. Abstract: Up to now, comics have mainly been used for teaching literature. In this article, approaches of language teaching methodology for the use of comics in German classes are presented. Using the example of the history comic Mosaik, the article discusses different variants of language-historical staging. The didactic potential subsequently shown illustrates how comics can be used in language teaching to promote both vocabulary acquisition and the development of language criticism competence and thus the formation of language awareness among students. Rezensionen – Anja Müller: Fuchs, Julia (2020): Erwerb von Informationsstrukturellen Fähigkeiten – Produktion und Rezeption von (in)definiten Artikeln bei deutschsprachigen Kindern. – Niklas Reinken: Andreas, Renate & Michael Andreas (2020): Praxis-Fachbuch für den kompetenten Rechtschreibunterricht. Neue Erkenntnisse – Neue Wege Informationen und Hinweise von Klaus Müllner und den Herausgeber*innen