Download or read book The OPA Way written by Alex Pattakos and published by BenBella Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named the "2015 Self-Help Book of the Year" at the New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards In chasing "the good life," many of us sacrifice our relationships, our health, and our sanity, but at the end of the day, we still find ourselves with lives and work that bring us little fulfillment. Life isn't about the pursuit of happiness, which is superficial and fleeting. It's about meaning, which helps us realize our full potential, and knowing that our lives and work matter—regardless of circumstances. Dr. Alex Pattakos and Elaine Dundon, two bestselling authors and leaders of the Meaning Movement, give readers The OPA! Way: Finding Joy & Meaning in Everyday Life & Work. Inspired by the wisdom of ancient Greek philosophy and traditional village values, and backed by years of research, The OPA! Way provides a breakthrough approach and practical tools to renew your outlook and rejuvenate your life. Pattakos and Dundon demystify the subject of meaning by sharing insights, stories, and three core lessons to guide you on your odyssey: Connect meaningfully with Others Engage with deeper Purpose Embrace life with Attitude Stop searching for happiness and start searching for meaning. Create the life you want, The OPA! Way.
Download or read book Opa Nobody written by Sonya Huber and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It had come to this: breastfeeding her screaming three-month-old while sitting on the cigarette-scarred floor of a union hall, lying to her husband so she could attend yet another activist meeting, and otherwise actively self-destructing. Then Sonya Huber turned to her long-dead grandfather, the family nobody, for help. Huber s search for meaning and resonance in the life of her grandfather Heina Buschman was unusual insofar as she knew him only through dismissive family stories: He let his wife die of neglect . . . he used his infant son as a decoy when transporting anti-Nazi literature in a baby carriage . . . and so the stories went. What she actually discovered was that, like his granddaughter, Heina Buschman was a committed and beleaguered activist whose story echoed her own. Huber s research not only conjured her grandfather s voice in answer to many of the questions that troubled her but also found in his story a source of personal sustenance for herself. Based on extensive research and documentation, this story of Heina Buschman offers a rare look into the heart of the average socialist trying to survive the Nazis and rebuild a broken world. Alternating with his voice is Huber s own, providing a rich and moving counterpoint that makes this deeply personal exploration of family, politics, and individual responsibility a story for all of us and for all time.
Download or read book Opa s Story written by Hubert Bruns and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The odds were against Hubert Bruns making it to age 80, but he did. Incredible luck prevailed throughout his life. As a youngster, he absconded with a bobsled and raced it down the mountain. As a teenager, he looked down through cracks in some scaffolding straight at Hitler without being shot. At 18 as a German soldier, he left the Front only hours before the Russians counter-attacked late in 1941. At 21, as a veteran, he was buried alive and almost died in Munich. Less dramatic happenings followed, but his luck continued. Two university degrees were acquired and Canadian immigration approved him for citizenship without delay. At 65, he survived a stroke and slowly regained the ability to think, talk and write. Quite a life. Quite a story.
Download or read book The Silly Side of Opa written by David Goodman and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story about two zebras, a giraffe and an elephant who live in Bumi in the country of Zimbabwe. The Zebras are sisters. The oldest is Stripes and her younger sister is Little Stripes. The giraffe’s name is Long Neck, and the elephant’s name is.....well, you can guess.
Download or read book Opa written by Alexandra Voulgari and published by Mitchell Beazley. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story of a vivacious Aussie Greek girl. At twenty years of age she has managed to avoid an arranged Greek marriage, despite the horror and disappointment of her family who clearly think she is mad. Throughout the narrative, Alexandra bring to life the beauty, smells and vibrancy of life on the Greek islands, where she escapes to. She is passionate, funny and honest.
Download or read book Opa Oma Together written by Patrick Mader and published by Bookhouse Fulfillment. This book was released on 2005 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Opa and Opa, grandparents who have shared a long life together on their farm. Once they nurtured seven children, a variety of farm animals, and rolling fields with their love and hard work. Now they teach their grandchildren about the wonderful ways you can grow, not only on the farm, but anywhere you live. After fifty years on the same farm, in the same home, Opa and Oma are still growing in life...together.
Download or read book Accordionly written by Michael Genhart and published by American Psychological Association. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist in the International Latino Book Awards. This unique book includes a bonus fold-out and a note from the author sharing the true story of his own family. When both grandpas, Abuelo and Opa, visit at the same time, they can’t understand each other’s language and there is a lot of silence. The grandson’s clever thinking helps find a way for everyone to share the day together as two cultures become one family.
Download or read book My Dance with Op written by Ladonna Alfano and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you believe in miracles? You will after reading La Donna Alfano's MY DANCE WITH OPA. Even though La Donna barely survived the tragic train/car accident that took the lives of her mother, identical twin and baby sister when she was five years old, she had an incredible out-of-body experience that gave her so much peace. She lived with different family members until her father remarried and La Donna's stepmother adopted her when she was eight years old. Her hell began. La Donna went through years of emotional, physical and sexual abuse and she eventually lost all faith in her angels, in God and in humanity. Her life started to plummet while getting into drugs and alcohol and looking for love in all the wrong places. The majority of her thirties were going through therapy trying to find happiness and finding her true self. While she was on the journey of finding her long-lost mother's family, one night she was awoken and driven to write a letter to UNSOLVED MYSTERIES. La Donna wanted to believe in her angels and in a higher power, but she needed proof. La Donna's grandfather, Opa, and her reunion was bittersweet, but their meeting was a wondrous spiritual dance that led her to a new life, a new awakening and a miraculous beginning. La Donna's heart wrenching narration will touch anyone who has ever suffered through heartbreak and /or abuse and gives proof that life can begin again and what's on the other side of healing is truly a miracle. Author Bio: La Donna Alfano is a sculptor and cosmetologist. She lives in Canton, Connecticut. MY DANCE WITH OPA is her first book.
Download or read book Opa Up and Running written by Henri Binsztok and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2013-02-25 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want to simplify web development? This hands-on book shows you how to write frontend and backend code simultaneously, using the Opa framework. Opa provides a complete stack for web application development, including a web server, database engine, distribution libraries, and a programming language that compiles to JavaScript. You’ll learn step-by-step how to use Opa by building two projects through the course of the book: a wiki application similar to Wikipedia, and a Twitter-like micro-blogging platform. Discover how easy it is to use Opa to develop applications with real-time updates, database interactions, and web service design. Do you have JavaScript experience? You’re ready to get started. Learn fundamental concepts, including Opa’s functional programming style Discover how Opa compiles to JavaScript, using jQuery on the frontend and Node.js on the server Construct HTML resources dynamically and embed static resources on an Opa server Use Opa’s method for performing CRUD operations and storing key-value pairs in MongoDB Build an Opa user interface with the Bootstrap toolkit from Twitter Learn variant types, pattern-matching, polymorphic types, recursive functions, and other advanced features Manage user accounts by building login forms, handling account activation, and tracking logged users Build a reactive UI—a real-time interface that continuously updates user events
Download or read book Opa s Christmas Collection written by Opa Don and published by BookCountry. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do a boy who wants a sled, a semi-truck driver, a package delivery courier, an innocent man in jail, and a man helping a guilty man in jail, have in common? All are ordinary people who have an epiphany at Christmas time in this collection of short stories. “The Juniper Sled” my first story is the only non-fiction story in this book. It took place in the depression era of the 1930’s. In this story my father learned about the sacrifices parents make so that their children can have a nice Christmas. He told me this story when I was a child and it has been shared with my children and grandchildren. In “Christmas and Carol” a semi-truck driver picks up a hitchhiker on Christmas Eve and learns about empathy and forgiveness, both giving and receiving. Then in “Kosher for Christmas” a Jewish man delivers a surprise package and receives a surprise himself. The story “Jesus of Nazareth Texas” features an innocent man in jail on Christmas Eve, an unlikely setting to learn the true meaning of Christmas but he manages nonetheless. Finally, in “A Barry Christmas” hard core Barry must fill in as a store Santa Claus and he discovers that not all children think only of material things. By helping a little girl get what she wants for Christmas he receives something unexpected himself. I hope you enjoy these Christmas stories and if you do; please recommend them to your friends and family. Merry Christmas, Opa
Download or read book Chicken Soup for the Soul Stories for a Better World written by Jack Canfield and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 101 of the most uplifting stories you've ever read about people reaching out, stepping up and transforming their lives and the world around them?
Download or read book Opa and Me written by Kevin M. Donovan and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Two best friends: a little girl and her German grandfather. Opa loves his granddaughter and enjoys sharing all things German with her, especially the German's favorite pastime of going for a good walk. The little girl loves her Opa and really enjoys their long walks together along with Opa's German mini-lessons. She wants to let her Opa know that the time they spend togther is very special to her...but she's just not sure how." --P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book Oma and Opa Love You written by Sally Helmick North and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oma and Opa Love You! is a super sweet book about how much a child is loved! "More than a Rhino with an ice cream cone, or a doggy that is chewing on a great big bone. More than the sunshine in the sky above, or a couple little duckies that are falling in love!"I have many other versions available including Mimi, Grammy, Nana, Your Aunt and Uncle, Mimi and Papa and many more! Search Amazon for the names you would like, for example: "Mimi and Papa Love You" by Sally Helmick North". You can also visit my website to see some of the pages and the names that are available. Kidsbookwithname.com
Download or read book These Stories written by Todd Day and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories, essays, poems, and plays following boys becoming men, men acting like boys, and the women caught in between.
Download or read book Opa Stories written by Jack Kolbe and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventures of a boy growing up in post-war Germany and in America. Narrow escapes from planes falling out of the sky, rooting in the rubble of bombed-out buildings for metal to trade, near-death experience coming to America and much more. Follow Opa's adventures in Georgia, Texas, Alaska and finally, Maryland and learn something about what America was like in the 1950's and 1960's from the perspective of a German boy.
Download or read book Flares of Memory Stories of Childhood During the Holocaust written by Anita Brostoff and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001-04-03 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of writing workshops at the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh, survivors assembled recently to remember the pivotal moments in which their lives were irreparably changed by the Nazis. These "flares of memory" invoke lost childhoods, preserving the voices of over forty Jews from throughout Europe who experienced a history that cannot be forgotten--by them nor us. Including a timeline that chronicles the rise of the Nazis, their devastating campaigns for control of Europe, and the successive edicts that would annihilate millions, Flares of Memory consists of 92 brief vignettes arranged both chronologically and thematically. Survivors from Munich, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Lithuania, and the Netherlands recreate the disbelief and chaos that ensued as families were separated, political rights were abolished, and synagogues and Jewish businesses were destroyed--before and especially after Kristallnacht. "We had entered a twilight zone between memories of earning our keep at our occupations and the fear of becoming game during hunting season," writes one survivor. Others remember the daily humiliation, the quiet heroes among their friends, and the painful abandonment by neighbors as Jews were restricted to ghettos, forced to don yellow stars, and loaded like cattle in trains destined for the camps: "We were completely stripped of all human identity." Vivid memories of hunger, disease, and a daily existence dependent on cruel luck in Dachau, Auschwitz, and other concentration camps provide penetrating testimonies to the ruthlessness of the Nazi killing machine, yet they also bear witness to the resilience and fortitude of individual souls bombarded by evil. This book also includes poignant recollections of American liberators who were often devastated by the horrors that they discovered after the fall of the Nazis. "A mix of emotions--disbelief, rage--overwhelmed us; tears blinded our eyes," recalls one soldier. Flares of Memory will inspire these emotions and will stay with you, long after you finish its pages.
Download or read book Graf von Anderson s College German Grammar and Culture written by Christian Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graf von Anderson’s College German Grammar and Culture is a beginners’ textbook (CEFR A1-B2, ACTFL novice low – intermediate low) for the German language for college students and for those engaged in self-study with popular software programs and apps. In addition to illuminating profiles of key places and individuals who helped shape German history from Roman times to the present day, the textbook also includes important cultural briefings. Chapter by chapter the book delineates the scope of the German language, beginning with “ich”, and moving on to subjects and verbs. Later chapters introduce cases, indirect and direct objects, prepositions, tenses, moods, and adjectives. Each chapter includes challenging exercises, and an answer key is provided. The rich cultural component in each chapter includes a travel guide, a historical snapshot, several musical selections, and a German text to read. This book is a straightforward and thorough introduction to the basic structures of German grammar and provides an overview of selected highlights of German culture to engage and enthuse.
