Download or read book Make It Count written by Megan Erickson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kat Caruso wishes her brain had a return policy, or at least a complaint hotline. The defective organ is constantly distracted, terrible at statistics, and absolutely flooded with inappropriate thoughts about her boyfriend's gorgeous best friend, Alec . . . who just so happens to be her brand-new math tutor. Who knew nerds could be so hot? Kat usually goes through tutors like she does boyfriends—both always seem to bail when they realize how hopeless she is. It's safer for her heart to keep everyone at arm's length. But Alec is always stepping just a little too close. Alec Stone should not be fantasizing about Kat. She's adorable, unbelievably witty, and completely off-limits. He'd never stab his best friend in the back . . . But when secrets are revealed, the lines of loyalty are blurred. To make it count, Alec must learn that messy human emotions can't be solved like a trigonometry function. And Kat has to trust that he may be the first guy to want her for who she is, and not in spite of it.
Download or read book Making It Count written by Stanley Lieberson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987-03-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title reexamines and reconsiders the model of empirical research underlying most empirical work. The goal is neither a whitewash nor capital punishment, but rather it is to reform and mold empirical research into an activity that contributes as much as possible to a rigorous understanding of society. Without worrying about defining science or even determining the essence of the scientific enterprise, the goal is one that pools together logical thinking and empirically determined information. One of the fundamental issues to be addressed in this volume: Are there questions currently studied that are basically unanswerable even if the investigator had ideal nonexperimental data? If so, what are the alternative questions that can be dealt with successfully by empirical social research, and how should they be approached? In the chapters ahead, it will be important to keep in mind this doctrine of the undoable. Of course, one cannot simply mutter "undoable" when a difficult obstacle is encountered, turn off the computer, and look in the want ads for a new job—or at least a new task. Instead, it means considering if there is some inherent logical reason or sociological force that makes certain empirical questions unanswerable. There are four types of undoable questions to consider: those that are inherently impossible; those that are premature; those that are overly complicated; and those that empirical and theoretical knowledge have nullified.
Download or read book Making It Count written by Arunabh Ghosh and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2014, titled Making it count: statistics and state-society relations in the early People's Republic of China, 1949-1959.
Download or read book Making Numbers Count written by Chip Heath and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear, practical, first-of-its-kind guide to communicating and understanding numbers and data—from bestselling business author Chip Heath. How much bigger is a billion than a million? Well, a million seconds is twelve days. A billion seconds is…thirty-two years. Understanding numbers is essential—but humans aren’t built to understand them. Until very recently, most languages had no words for numbers greater than five—anything from six to infinity was known as “lots.” While the numbers in our world have gotten increasingly complex, our brains are stuck in the past. How can we translate millions and billions and milliseconds and nanometers into things we can comprehend and use? Author Chip Heath has excelled at teaching others about making ideas stick and here, in Making Numbers Count, he outlines specific principles that reveal how to translate a number into our brain’s language. This book is filled with examples of extreme number makeovers, vivid before-and-after examples that take a dry number and present it in a way that people click in and say “Wow, now I get it!” You will learn principles such as: -SIMPLE PERSPECTIVE CUES: researchers at Microsoft found that adding one simple comparison sentence doubled how accurately users estimated statistics like population and area of countries. -VIVIDNESS: get perspective on the size of a nucleus by imagining a bee in a cathedral, or a pea in a racetrack, which are easier to envision than “1/100,000th of the size of an atom.” -CONVERT TO A PROCESS: capitalize on our intuitive sense of time (5 gigabytes of music storage turns into “2 months of commutes, without repeating a song”). -EMOTIONAL MEASURING STICKS: frame the number in a way that people already care about (“that medical protocol would save twice as many women as curing breast cancer”). Whether you’re interested in global problems like climate change, running a tech firm or a farm, or just explaining how many Cokes you’d have to drink if you burned calories like a hummingbird, this book will help math-lovers and math-haters alike translate the numbers that animate our world—allowing us to bring more data, more naturally, into decisions in our schools, our workplaces, and our society.
Download or read book Making IT Count written by Leslie Willcocks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Making IT Count: from strategy to implementation' focuses on the practical elements of delivering Information Technology strategy. Studies regularly show that over half of Information Technology strategies are never implemented, or are unsuccessful in delivering the desired results, and that a significant percentage of strategies implemented were never in the original plans. The linkage between strategy development and delivery needs a very clear focus; this is the key topic that the authors address. The book highlights eight major fallacies in managing IT, and eighteen better practices. It then details how to draw up strategy, instigate navigation techniques and make sourcing decisions. Change and delivery are a major focus, as is infrastructure development. Caselets and full length case studies of organizations such as General Electric, Siemens, Colonial Mutual, Charles Schwab, Macquarie Bank, ICI, United Airlines, Norwich Union, Walgreens and Dell and have been included to show how strategies have been successfully implemented and managed.
Download or read book Make it Count written by Kelly Norris and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based around a counting trajectory that begins with the pre-requisites for counting right through to mental strategies for adding single-digit numbers.
Download or read book Make It Count written by Jake Oergel and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Make It Count, author Dr. Jake Oergel dives deep into tools, tactics, paradigms and metrics on how to live life with purpose. Make It Count means to chase everyday with gratitude towards knowing both time and life are not guaranteed. Dr. Jake helps readers discover ways to live with meaning earlier in life instead of wasting time. Cementing your legacy is important now more than ever! In this powerful, purposeful, eye-opening book you'll discover how to: realize life happens for you and not to you, caring for others enhances success for everyone involved, learn to live your life within the bookends of time, create your list of non-negotiables for foundational strength, change your outlook from cloudy to sunny and learn the mastery of listening. Make It Count provides a toolkit of life learned principles which used together or individually help you live your life with purpose. Dr. Jake brings 24 inspirational, driven individuals into his book. Each person provides a playbook as to what has made them succeed in life. These individuals range from professional athletes, entrepreneurs, cancer survivors, industry leaders and every day people whose main mission is to live the best life they can. Join Dr. Jake on the journey towards Making It Count!Dr. Jake has been a competitive Ironman triathlete for the past 20 years. His main focus while competing was always to push the edge of what is possible within the human body and mind. Outside of endurance sports Dr. Jake has treated thousands of patients as a chiropractor, had a successful career in professional sports and coached numerous athletes to personal success. His true love will always be the life lessons learned from his kids and the ability to wake up each day and help as many people as he can find their Make It Count!
Download or read book Make it Count written by ,Casey and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was born with a genetic disease called cystic fibrosis (CF). After the age ten, the disease started to take over my body. I was put in a wheelchair and on liquid oxygen. My lungs finally gave out. My family and I moved to the University of North Carolina so I could have a double-lung transplant. In August 1992 I got new lungs. I am not going to lie, there were many times when I thought I would die fighting for my last breath on a vent in a hospital. For years I put on a show for people. My smile would cover the physical pain my frail body was going through. I did not want pity, so I faked it. I feel that, since I have a shorter life span than most, I have to live every day like it is my last. I am not mad at CF because I believe God gave it to me to see what I would do with it. I just want to touch and inspire people so when I am gone, they will talk about me for a long time. I have done more at twenty-nine sick than most fifty-year-olds do healthy. —Coby James Gent (July 25, 1979–December 23, 2008)
Download or read book Make It Count written by Nicole Mclaren Campbell and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicole McLaren Campbell is an author, educator, entrepreneur and professional speaker. At just age 13, her passion for youth empowerment work was featured in local and international media, including CNN and Nickelodeon and she was chosen as one of "20 Teens Who Will Change the World" by Teen People Magazine. A graduate of Phillips Academy 'Andover' and Princeton University, McLaren Campbell leveraged her experiences to start AIM Educational Services and is considered a leading expert in college admissions and counseling services in the Caribbean. Noted for her no-nonsense, yet practical approach, Nicole addresses both high school and corporate audiences on the subject of maximizing potential in their personal and professional lives. She believes that joy and happiness are our birthright, and, that is in tapping into our purpose, and pursuing the goals around it, that we experience the true joy of living. She is the founder of the AIM Higher Foundation and sits on the Government of Jamaica Boards of the Early Childhood Commission and the CHASE Fund. Nicole lives in Kingston Jamaica and is wife to international reggae artiste Assassin aka Agent Sasco (Je rey Campbell), mom to 5-year old LC, 4-year-old Joshua and 'bonus-mom' to 11-year-old Ally.
Download or read book Make It Count written by John N. Kotre and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A noted psychologist offers his best advice on how to make life more meaningful, including how to cultivate a desire to influence future generations and lead a more generative life.
Download or read book Life Has if in It for a Reason Make It Count written by Arthur Luke and published by Arthur Luke. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for everyone who needs a little inspiration and wisdom along the path of life. If you are a student, a graduate, a shop assistant or a senior manager. If you have just been made redundant, just retired or are a mother of three with a mortgage (and can't remember the last time you had any time to yourself). If you are in a dead-end job and life only exists between Friday night and Monday morning. This book is for you. The bad news is very few of us get to do what we want in life. 'Life and work', or in most cases 'work and life', get in the way. Most (but not all) of us hate Mondays, long for Fridays and, as the years go by, slowly commute our way to retirement or death, whichever comes first. The good news is it doesn't have to be that way. This book is all about how to make the most of life's opportunities. Life is a one-way journey make it an interesting one.
Download or read book Make Today Count written by John C. Maxwell and published by Center Street. This book was released on 2008-06-11 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from the text of the Business Week bestseller Today Matters, this condensed, revised edition boils down John C. Maxwell's 12 daily practices to their very essence, giving maximum impact in minimal time. Presented in a quick-read format, this version is designed to be read cover to cover in one sitting or taken in as brief lessons in a few spare minutes each day. It covers such topics as: -- Priorities -- Health -- Family -- Finances -- Values -- Growth Readers will learn how to make decisions on important matters and apply those decisions daily to put them on a path to more successful, productive, and fulfilling lives.
Download or read book Making College Count written by Patrick S. O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making College Count is a comprehensive resource that will help students excel in college and create great career opportunities after graduation. Much more than a college survival guide, it offers students (and parents) a proven framework to achieve at a high level in the classroom, in extracurricular activities, and in their work experiences. The book also positions students for success in their future job searches. Making College Count features an eye-catching, two-color design with 78 illustrations, and is written in an approachable, student-friendly voice.
Download or read book Make It Right written by Megan Erickson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Max Payton lives by two rules: Size and strength win any fight, and never show weakness. When a rash of assaults sends Bowler University into a tailspin, Max volunteers to help teach a self-defense class. One of the other instructors is the beautiful, pixie-faced girl he keeps butting heads with … and who challenges everything he thought he knew. Lea Travers avoids guys like Max—cocky jocks who assume she's fragile because of a disability caused by a childhood accident. She likes to be in control, and something about being with Max makes her feel anything but. During the moments he lets his guard down, Lea sees a soul as broken inside as she is outside. Trusting him is a whole other problem … When the attacks ramp up and hit close to home, Lea and Max must learn, before it's too late, that true strength can come from vulnerability … and giving in to trust is sometimes the only way to make things right.
Download or read book Make it Count written by Helen Haynes and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undergoing more than 20 operations and surviving major organ failure would take its toll on anybody. But Helen Haynes not only survived these life-challenging experiences...she fought her way back to a successful working and sporting life, winning gold medals at the World Transplant Games and mastering her charity and professional speaking career. Helen was a determined and talented tennis player with a very promising future when she was diagnosed with kidney failure at the age of 20 - the result of taking too many anti-inflammatories while coping with training injuries. Helen endured years of ill-health, fighting for her life, before the generosity of not one, but two organ donors - including her own mother - ultimately saved and transformed her life. Now running her own business as a public speaking consultant and professional speaker, Helen shares her remarkable story in a candid and very moving way. Helen Haynes, born in East London, South Africa, has achieved international success as a professional speaker, charity fundraiser and most recently as a businesswoman. Her passion to make a difference in the world came about after facing life-threatening kidney failure at just 20. It ended her promising sporting career, changed her perspective and taught her compassion and strength. Using her determined and positive spirit, Helen has raised millions for charities in South Africa, Australia and the United Kingdom. She now empowers professionals to share their message with passion and power through her public speaking, coaching and training business.
Download or read book DO Something written by Miles McPherson and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone wants their life to count. We all wish we could make a difference in a hurting world. The good news is that we can. Despite our own brokenness (and, in fact, because of it) each of us can be Jesus's hands and feet on Earth, reaching out to others in real and profound ways. With powerful true stories, illustrations from the life of Christ, and specific activities for readers to engage, DO Something! is a hopeful and practical book that shows how to live out faith in a way that improves people's lives. With transparency and humility, Miles McPherson shares his own shortcomings as a young pastor trying to connect with people in need. Stressing the importance of hurting with people before you can do something for them, McPherson takes readers through the 5 P's of making their lives count: preparation, purpose, pain, power, and passion. By putting into practice the principles found in this book, readers will experience spiritual fulfillment as they see that they can make a real difference in the lives of those around them.
Download or read book Make Today Count written by Orville E. Kelly and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
