Download or read book NO ANCIENT WISDOM NO FOLLOWERS written by James McGregor and published by Easton Studio Press, LLC. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past three decades, China has risen from near collapse to a powerhouse -- upending nearly every convention on the world stage, whether policy or business. China is now the globe’s second largest economy, second largest exporter, a manufacturing machine that has lifted 500 million of its citizens from poverty while producing more than one million US dollar millionaires. Then why do China’s leaders describe the nation’s economic model as “unstable and unsustainable”? Because it is. James McGregor has spent 25 years in China as a businessman, journalist and author. In this, his latest highly readable book, he offers extensive new research that pulls back the curtain on China’s economic power. He describes the much-vaunted “China Model” as one of authoritarian capitalism, a unique system that, in its own way, is terminating itself. It is proving incompatible with global trade and business governance. It is threatening multinationals, which fear losing their business secrets and technology to China’s mammoth state-owned enterprises. It is fielding those SOEs – China’s “national champions” -- into a global order angered by heavily subsidized state capitalism. And it is relying on an outdated investment and export model that’s running out of steam. What has worked in the past, won’t work in the future. The China Model must be radically overhauled if the country hopes to continue its march toward prosperity. The nation must consume more of what it makes. It must learn to innovate. It must unleash private enterprise. And the Communist Party bosses? They must cede their pervasive and smothering hold on economic power to foster the growth, and thus social stability, that they can’t survive without. Government must step back, the state-owned economy must be brought to heel, and opportunity must be freed. During the Tang Dynasty, an official in the imperial court observed: “No ancient wisdom, no followers.” He was lamenting that regime was headed alone into dangerous and uncharted waters without any precedent for guidance. Again today – as McGregor makes clear – this is China’s greatest challenge.

Download or read book Red Hats written by Bernard K. Smith and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-02-18 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story about a young man, who spent his high school summer vacation working on the Mt. Hood National Forest in 1945. He doesn't want to be drafted into an Army-slated to invade Japan, and if he is --- he doesn't want to do it, without first tasting some of the sweet mysteries of life and love. In the meantime, he finds dangers, real and imagined: in fighting forest fires, in trying to understand the opposite sex, and coping with the antics of his fellow crew members --- the REDHATs.

Download or read book The Way Things Are written by Lama Ole Nydahl and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This seminal work offers the liberating and powerful methods of Diamond Way Buddhism for readers seeking to incorporate Buddhist practice into their daily lives.

Download or read book On My Own written by Florence Falk and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At some point over the course of the average American woman’s life, she will find herself alone, whether she is divorced, widowed, single, or in a loveless, isolating relationship. And when that time comes, it is likely that she will be at a loss as to how to handle it. As a society, we have an unspoken but omnipresent belief that a woman alone is an outcast, inherently flawed in some way. In this invigorating, supportive book, psychotherapist Florence Falk aims to take the fear, doubt, confusion, and helplessness out of being a woman alone. Falk invites all women to find their own paths toward an authentic selfhood, to discover the pleasures and riches of solitude, and to reconnect with others through a newfound sense of self-confidence. Like so many women before her, Florence Falk found herself divorced, alone, and unsure of herself. Soon she realized that by embracing her solitude for what it was—a potentially enriching and life-altering experience—she could turn what once would have felt like “loneliness” into a far more positive and empowered “aloneness.” Falk notes that each of us has two opposing drives: one causes us to yearn to make close connections with others, and the other pulls us back into ourselves, into the need for selfhood and certainty that can only be shaped through solitude. In order to be whole, she says, we must heed both of those impulses. But in our modern culture, the former is stressed while the latter is neglected, even vilified. On My Own boldly shifts that paradigm. With inspiring, intimate stories of women from all backgrounds, Falk illuminates the essential role that being alone plays in women’s lives. Whether she is in a stable relationship or on her own, every woman must learn to be by herself; for if she can be fully free, unfettered by society’s stigmas about being alone, life and all its possibilities will open up for her. And as Falk demonstrates, once a woman has discovered the richness of solitude, she is not likely to give it up so easily.

Download or read book The Learning Game written by Ana Lorena Fábrega and published by Harriman House Limited. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did we conclude that the best way to prepare kids for the future is to cluster them into classrooms by age and grade, forcing them to learn the same things, at the same time and pace, seven hours a day, five days a week, for twelve years? We trust the school system to prepare our kids for the future. We get excited when they get good grades, or disappointed if they don’t. But we rarely stop to question whether school is teaching our children the right things in the right way. Kids could get good at playing the game of school, but are they really learning? Teacher-turned-edupreneur Ana Lorena Fábrega, known by her students as Ms. Fab, invites us to rethink education. In The Learning Game, she reveals how traditional schooling has gone wrong, and proposes a series of actionable strategies to help kids learn. What if we guide kids to think for themselves? Should we encourage kids to take risks and tackle projects of their own? How do we help kids learn to love learning? Answering these questions and many more, The Learning Game will arm you with practical tools to design a new approach to learning—one that leaves behind the game of school and prepares your kids for the game of life.

Download or read book At the End of Time written by Robin Robertson and published by Nicolas-Hays, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many cycles predicting the “end of times” fill our modern dialog--from the coming of the Millennium to 2012. Robin Robertson helps to clarify these prophesies and offers insight into the central issues of our challenges and the experience and their life changing implications. For eighteen hundred years, the prophecies in the Book of Revelation have captured the collective Western imagination. Saint John’s rich imagery and the dramatic urgency of the looming disasters he predicts have both fascinated and frightened us with its apparent message that the end of time is near. Robin Robertson, Ph.D. deciphers the mystical theology and visions of the prophets, seers and shamans. His analysis incorporates the insights of modern mathematics and Chaos Theory, as well as his personal insights gained through his work as a Jungian therapist and teacher. Robertson holds a mirror to humanity’s need to know Self and God. He explains that Saint John’s vision foretells the massive change in consciousness that is happening in our time.

Download or read book InfoWorld written by and published by . This book was released on 2006-04-17 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: InfoWorld is targeted to Senior IT professionals. Content is segmented into Channels and Topic Centers. InfoWorld also celebrates people, companies, and projects.

Download or read book The Red Hat Society R s Laugh Lines written by Sue Ellen Cooper and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-16 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life begins at 50! And the women of the Red Hat Society are proud of it. In The Red Hat Society's Laugh Lines. Sue Ellen Cooper and the women of the RHS celebrate the life experiences that have made them who they are today. Over the years, they've accumulated well-earned laugh lines and cry-lines from wonderfully funny, incredibly touching stories that will warm readers' hearts and touch their souls. Just as there is so much more to each of these women than a purple outfit and a red hat, there's so much more to their lives than the RHS--"from their husbands, children, and grandchildren to living life fabulously after 50. This book is a collection of some of the most touching and funniest stories that they want to share with their sisters, and is filled with sidebars recommending their favorite books and movies. With contributions from members across the country, this collection is bound to thrill all Red Hatters--"and those who soon will be.

Download or read book The Batting Doctors Cricket Team Wisdom written by The Batting Doctor and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many years ago I was lucky enough to meet well known cricket Sports Psychologist Sandy Gordon. At that meeting Sandy indicated that it was important for all teams and team members to continue to look to improve in all they do. Later I was fortunate to attend a Junior Cricket meeting where Mike Hussey spoke. Mike indicated that Sandy Gordon had impressed on the West Australian Team there was a genuine need for all to work together as a team. Sandy had suggested to Mike that he and the team needed to remember the following acronym: Together Each Achieve More The WISE quickly understand that there is a genuine need for all to continue to work to improve in all that is done. The WISE also better understand that so much more can be achieved when all in a TEAM work together. Over many centuries of human existence, the WISE have used these important ideals to achieve unbelievable and sustained SUCCESS. Many examples of these outstanding achievements have been included to provide impetus for the reader to apply WISDOM in all that is done.

Download or read book Raging Gracefully written by Jennifer Basye Sander and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-08-28 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Raging Gracefully, women just like you give voice to the unique challenges and choices that color this glorious yet gut-wrenching time of life. This engaging, endearing collection of true-life stories reveals the guts and glory of women old enough to know who they are--and run with it: a grieving widow of forty-nine experiences the healing powers of friendship, laughter, and water while vacationing and skinny-dipping in Mexico with sister-friends; a committed bachelorette has a change of heart and ties the knot in her sixtieth year; and a once mild-mannered woman raves about her unexpected menopausal rage, whiskers, weight gain, crushing fatigue, and crashing libido, and refuses to go without a fight into that dark crone's night. In mid-life the truth comes out whether we like it or not--about life, about death, about what really matters. We take on everything from children who won't grow up and parents who become children to about-face career changes and relationship rescues (or not). But through it all we can still have some fun, and this is the book that proves it! So treat yourself to a little graceful raging!

Download or read book The Fifth Queen Trilogy written by Ford Madox Ford and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-09 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fifth Queen trilogy consists of three historical novels, The Fifth Queen, Privy Seal and The Fifth Queen Crowned. The trilogy presents a fictionalized account of Katharine Howard's arrival at the Court of Henry VIII, her eventual marriage to the king, and her death. Katharine Howard is introduced as a devout Roman Catholic, impoverished, young noblewoman escorted by her fiery cousin Thomas Culpeper. By accident, she comes to the attention of the king, in a minor way at first, is helped to a position as a lady in waiting for the then bastard Lady Mary, Henry's eldest daughter, by her old Latin tutor Nicholas Udal. Udal is a spy for Thomas Cromwell, the Lord Privy Seal. As Katharine becomes involved with the many calculating, competing, and spying members of Henry VIII's Court, she gradually rises, almost against her will, in Court. She is brought more to the attention of the King, becomes involved with him, gets used by Cromwell, Bishop Gardiner and Thomas Cranmer as well as the less powerful though more personally attached Nicholas Throckmorton. Her connection to the latter puts her in some peril, as in January 1554 he is suspected of complicity in Wyatt's Rebellion and arrested, during which time Katherine is also briefly implicated. Katharine's forthrightness, devotion to the Old Faith and learning are what make her attractive to the King, along with her youth and physical beauty.

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Download or read book Babur written by Farzana Moon and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 1997 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is The Book Where History Meets The Bride Of Fiction. In This Loveless Union, Both Striving For The Kernels Of Truth. Sixteenth Century Is The Time Period In Which This Saga Unfolds. The Scenario Opens At Kabul In Afghanistan, Down The Slope Of One Small Hill, Called Gulkhaneh. This Hill Lies Against The Majestic Range Of The Himalayas, Where The Biblical Cain Is Believed To Be Buried. Babur Is A Poet, A Mystic, And A Scholar. He Is Dauntless To A Verge Of Recklessness, Loving His Moun¬Tain-Brides, And Indulging In Pleasures Even Amidst The Extremities Of Wars. The Plot And The Characters Follow The Bride¬Groom Of History Like The Phantoms Of The Fate. Yet, The Bride Of Fiction Feeds The Very Lips Of The Words With Exotic Dialogues. The Scenic Splendors Along The Way Shun The Dull Bridegroom Of History, And Welcome The Bride Of Fiction On A Swift, Pleasant Journey Toward The Stairway To India. Babur Is The True Heir Of Tamerlane Sixth In Line From Him As His Paternal Ancestor, And From Genghis Khan As His Maternal Ancestor. After Thirty-Six Years Of Turbulent Rule (Only Five Years In India), When Babur Died At Agra, At The Age Of Forty-Eight, His Empire Extended Eastward From Badakhshan And Kabul Through The Punjab To The Borders Of Bengal. He Died As He Lived ! Like A True Mystic, Espousing Gaiety And Laughter. And Living In The Warmth And Sunshine Of His Great, Great Loves. And Welcoming Death Without Fear ! Rather, Immolating His Life, To Save The Life Of His Beloved Son, Humayun. Thus, Dying In Conformity With His Belief To Live Joyfully And To Die Happily. Farzana Moon Is A Native Of Pakistan. She Is A Teacher And A Writer. Her Poetry And Prose Have Appeared In Literary Journals In The United States. She Is A Citizen Of The United States, And Is Residing In Ohio With Her Husband And Daughter. Her Literary Pursuits Range From Religion To Philosophy, From Politics To History. Her Plays, Includ¬Ing The One Based On The Mahabharata, Are Being Considered By Us And Canadian Publishers. She Plans To Write Six Moghul Sagas, Three Of Which Are Complete. Her Third Moghul Saga, Divine Akbar And Holy India, Is Being Considered By Us And Foreign Publishers.

Download or read book The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court written by Форд Мэдокс Мэдокс and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tears of the Lotus written by Roger E. McCarthy and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1949 Mao Tse-tung first sent his People's Liberation Army into the eastern Tibetan province of Amdo; he followed with an invasion of the province of Kham in 1950. Ill-prepared, disorganized and badly outnumbered, the small Tibetan armed forces were no match for the invaders. At first the Chinese persuaded many Tibetans that their intent was merely to help them share in the future greatness and wealth that Mao had promised all. In a short time the Tibetan tribesmen realized, however, that the true purpose of the invasion was otherwise. Their religion and their freedom were at stake. Despite the repeated efforts by the Dalai Lama and others in Lhasa to dissuade them, the people resisted the Chinese--at great cost: over one million dead in the 1950s. This work includes accounts of the role of Tibetans who collaborated with the Chinese invaders, the resistance movement, the Dalai Lama's lack of support for the movement, and how even so the resistance made it possible for the Dalai Lama to escape from Lhasa in 1959.

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Download or read book Aging and the Art of Living written by Jan Baars and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baars explores philosophers from Plato to Foucault as they consider the meaning of aging—and wisdom—in our society. In this deeply considered meditation on aging in Western culture, Jan Baars argues that, in today’s world, living longer does not necessarily mean living better. He contends that there has been an overall loss of respect for aging, to the point that understanding and “dealing with” aging people has become a process focused on the decline of potential and the advance of disease rather than on the accumulation of wisdom and the creation of new skills. To make his case, Baars compares and contrasts the works of such modern-era thinkers as Foucault, Heidegger, and Husserl with the thought of Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Cicero, and other Ancient and Stoic philosophers. He shows how people in the classical period—less able to control health hazards—had a far better sense of the provisional nature of living, which led to a philosophical and religious emphasis on cultivating the art of living and the idea of wisdom. This is not to say that modern society’s assessments of aging are insignificant, but they do need to balance an emphasis on the measuring of age with the concept of "living in time." Gerontologists, philosophers, and students will find Baars' discussion to be a powerful, perceptive conversation starter.