Download or read book Seeking the Other Side written by Colin Ferguson and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on an extraordinary odyssey of self-discovery in Seeking the Other Side, a gripping tale that transports readers to a pivotal era of early Christianity. Through the eyes of Nruma, a resilient slave, the story unfolds as he gazes across the vast expanse of the great sea, yearning to unravel the mysteries that lie beyond. Against the backdrop of a rapidly evolving world, Nruma’s path leads him to an unimaginable destiny. Transformed into Simon, he becomes an integral part of Jesus’ journey, shouldering the weight of the cross as an unwavering symbol of faith. His travels take him to the vibrant city of Antioch, where he emerges as a visionary, contributing to the very foundations of the nascent Christian Church. Amidst a tapestry of action and adventure, Nruma’s quest transcends mere physical boundaries. Driven by an unwavering desire to dismantle the shackles of injustice, he courageously confronts the barriers that divide humanity, sparking a powerful ripple effect that resonates far and wide. Seeking the Other Side weaves a riveting narrative, blending historical detail with a profound exploration of the human spirit. In this awe-inspiring tale, the protagonist’s journey serves as a metaphor for the indomitable resilience of the human soul, reminding us that hope and courage can triumph even in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles.
Download or read book Trust and Mistrust in International Relations written by Andrew H. Kydd and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The difference between war and peace can be a matter of trust. States that trust each other can cooperate and remain at peace. States that mistrust each other enough can wage preventive wars, attacking now in fear that the other side will attack in the future. In this groundbreaking book, Andrew Kydd develops a theory of trust in international relations and applies it to the Cold War. Grounded in a realist tradition but arriving at conclusions very different from current realist approaches, this theory is the first systematic game theoretic approach to trust in international relations, and is also the first to explicitly consider how we as external observers should make inferences about the trustworthiness of states. Kydd makes three major claims. First, while trustworthy states may enter conflict, when we see conflict we should become more convinced that the states involved are untrustworthy. Second, strong states, traditionally thought to promote cooperation, can do so only if they are relatively trustworthy. Third, even states that strongly mistrust each other can reassure each other and cooperate provided they are trustworthy. The book's historical chapters focus on the growing mistrust at the beginning of the Cold War. Contrary to the common view that both sides were willing to compromise but failed because of mistrust, Kydd argues that most of the mistrust in the Cold War was justified, because the Soviets were not trustworthy.
Download or read book The Other Side of Impossible written by Susannah Meadows and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You’re faced with a difficult health condition. You have exhausted medicine’s answers. What do you do? Susannah Meadows tells the real-life stories of seven families who persisted when traditional medicine alone wasn’t enough. Their adventures take us to the outer frontiers of medical science and cutting-edge complementary therapies, as Meadows explores research into the mind’s potential to heal the body, the possible role food may play in reversing disease, the power of agency, perseverance, and hope—and more. When journalist Susannah Meadows noticed her three-year-old son, Shepherd, shying away from soccer practice, she had no idea it was the first sign of juvenile idiopathic arthritis. The diagnosis was the first step of a long journey, physically painful for Shepherd and emotionally wrenching for Susannah and her family. But they pressed on, and using a combination of traditional and complementary medicine they beat the disease, and the odds. Meadows chronicles her own story, and takes you into the lives of other remarkable people, exploring their heartbreaks and triumphs. One boy who has severe food allergies undergoes an unconventional therapy and is soon eating everything. An organic farmer in Washington State tries to solve the puzzle of her daughter’s epileptic seizures. A physician with MS creates her own combination of treatments and goes from a wheelchair to riding a bike again. A child diagnosed with ADHD refuses to take medication and instead improves his life, and the life of his family, after changing his diet. Other families take on rheumatoid arthritis and autistic behaviors. Meadows includes new information about traditional and nontraditional medicine and the latest science on how the health of our gut bacteria is connected to wellness—and how the right foods play a key role in helping this microscopic population thrive. She also talks with scientists who study the traits and circumstances that may make some people keep going when others feel helpless. These researchers are illuminating the psychology of healing—how the mind, and asserting control over your body and health, can play a part in recovery. Fascinating, moving, and profoundly inspiring, The Other Side of Impossible gives us people driven by love, desperation, and astonishing resolve—a community of the defiant who share an extraordinary talent for hope and for fighting the battle for healing in today’s world and tomorrow’s.
Download or read book Seeking Jordan written by Matthew McKay, PhD and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you have lost someone you deeply love, or have become strongly aware of your mortality, it’s hard to avoid wondering about life after death, the existence of God, notions of heaven and hell, and why we are here in the first place. The murder of Matthew McKay’s son, Jordan, sent him on a journey in search of ways to communicate with his son despite fears and uncertainty. Here he recounts his efforts — including past-life and between-lives hypnotic regressions, a technique called induced after-death communication, channeled writing, and more. McKay, a psychologist and researcher, ultimately learned how to reach his son. In this book he provides extraordinary revelations — direct from Jordan — about the soul’s life after death, how karma works, why we incarnate, why there is so much pain in the world, the single force that connects us, and our future as souls. Unlike many books about after-death communication, near-death experiences, and past-life memories, this is a book for those who do not believe yet yearn to know what happens after death. In addition to being riveting reading, Seeking Jordan is a unique heart-, soul-, and mind-stirring reflection on the issues each of us will ultimately face.
Download or read book Stories from the Other Side written by Anny Slegten and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So, we are here. What happens once we die? Is there an afterlife? Is there eternity? Where is it? How is it? Do we really live for ever? Somehow, deep down, we know there is more and wonder what will happen to us after leaving this world. Stories from the Other Side is based on Annys numerous encounters with the dead that have occurred during hypnotherapy sessions. Based on the information Anny has collected from these spirits, she decided to shed light on what happens after we die. By making them talk about themselves, Anny learned the experience is not about bright lights, heaven, hell and the like. Transcripts of conversations with spirits do reveal what happens next. Join Anny as she shares fascinating real life stories from the ones who passed to the next plane.
Download or read book The Other Side written by Horace Annesley Vachell and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Other Side of Death written by Carlyle Boynton Haynes and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adolescent Rationality and Development written by David Moshman and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004-12-13 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The huge and fractured literature on adolescence challenges both students and scholars. For students there is too much to learn and too little coherence across topics to enable deeper understanding. For scholars, there are few integrative visions to connect minitheories, research programs, and practical concerns. In the first edition of this advanced text, Moshman provided a constructivist synthesis of the literatures of cognitive, moral, and identity development, from the classic universalist theories of Piaget, Kohlberg, and Erikson through the more pluralist research and theorizing of the late 20th century. Without assuming any prior knowledge of psychology, he introduced and coordinated basic concepts to enable students to wrestle with the questions of concern to experts and help experts see those concerns from a larger perspective. In this thoroughly updated second edition, Moshman develops his conceptualization of advanced psychological development in adolescence and early adulthood and proposes--in a new chapter--a conception of rational moral identity as a developmental ideal. Unlike the prototypical changes of early childhood, advanced psychological development cannot be understood as progress through universal stages to a universally achieved state of maturity. Progress is possible, however, through rational processes of reflection, coordination, and social interaction.
Download or read book Adolescent Psychological Development written by David Moshman and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The huge and fractured literature on adolescence challenges both students and scholars. For students there is too much to learn and too little coherence across topics to enable deeper understanding. For scholars, there are few integrative visions to connect minitheories, research programs, and practical concerns. In the first edition of this advanced text, Moshman provided a constructivist synthesis of the literatures of cognitive, moral, and identity development, from the classic universalist theories of Piaget, Kohlberg, and Erikson through the more pluralist research and theorizing of the late 20th century. Without assuming any prior knowledge of psychology, he introduced and coordinated basic concepts to enable students to wrestle with the questions of concern to experts and help experts see those concerns from a larger perspective. In this thoroughly updated second edition, Moshman develops his conceptualization of advanced psychological development in adolescence and early adulthood and proposes--in a new chapter--a conception of rational moral identity as a developmental ideal. Unlike the prototypical changes of early childhood, advanced psychological development cannot be understood as progress through universal stages to a universally achieved state of maturity. Progress is possible, however, through rational processes of reflection, coordination, and social interaction.
Download or read book The Other Side of Sin written by Andrew Sung Park and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-05-21 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The good news of Jesus Christ is for both sinners and the sinned-against. For the past two thousand years, Christian theologians have focused on the experience of sinners, but treated their victims inadequately. To counterbalance this perspective, a diverse group of Christian scholars consider sin "from the other side." To make sense of Christianity from this standpoint, they offer a more complex and comprehensive analysis of human participation in evil and its reconciliation than the simple formula of sin and repentance. The Other Side of Sin is an original, fresh, and exciting adventure into one of the most needed areas of theological thinking.
Download or read book The Other Side of Normal written by F. Michael Horn and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2002-05-28 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is an outgrowth of two profound life experiences. One took place in graduate school, preparing for a career as a clinical psychologist. One professor, well into middle age, began pontificating on homosexuality. Without hesitation he made a pronouncement which was delivered as the final immutable truth on the subject: Men do NOT love one another. It was delivered with a finality of conviction, of ultimate judgment. I wondered how he knew; how he could be so sure; what had given him the right to speak so authoritatively on a matter he in all likelihood had never experienced nor ever would. It struck me as the ultimate arrogance. That was 1980. The second experience was the ever popular enquiry: What do homosexuals do with each other? This question is rarely one of innocent curiosity but rather one of disbelief, incredulity, distaste, disgust, even thinly disguised contempt. Both these early experiences impressed me as a powerful negation of our core essence as gay men in the world. It seemed incredible that who we are should be dismissed with a wave of the hand, as if the gay experience is of no consequence whatsoever, a mere pock mark on otherwise unblemished skin. Even nineteenth century Victorians were never so cavalier about [hetero] sexuality. Few, if any of us, growing up in heterosexual society, avoid the experience of being wholly dismissed in this way, as if our very existence is irrelevant, perhaps should never have been. This is profoundly corrosive of our core sense of human integrity. An ineradicable message is implanted: that of deviate, defective, unworthy, condemned. This unavoidably etches a deep experience of shame within us all. Over the years, with maturity, we slowly come to terms with who we are, always at a price. What do homosexuals do with each other? The fulcrum of the question is on the do-ing. It completely ignores the be-ing; what does a gay man feel about men? How are such feelings distinct from those felt by heterosexual men for other men? The feelings we hold for one another are rarely of concern to the hetero. It just doesn't get asked. Curiosity stops here. It seems a discussion that prefers to be shunned. Bringing it up evokes fear and discomfort and embarrasment, even shame. We are cued into silence. It is a silence which intrudes into our shared moments of intimacy with other men. Unaware of our shame, we prefer instead to utter the body language of sex, giving voice to the feeling within, through the do-ing. Sex often serves an unwitting purpose of helping us avoid our feelings. What we take to bed with us is the commonplace heterosexual male model of using sex to spare us the whole range in feelings which naturally arise with intimacy between human beings. In their case, however, the female presence helps balance out this inclination. Healthy women are active seekers of intimacy and feeling expression. As gay men we are required to find this balance within ourselves. It wasn't so very long ago that, not only did we not have the right to have sex with one another; we didn't even have the right to be in one another's company. Meeting one another socially, in public places or private gathering was fraught with risk. In almost any gay bar or restuarant, entrapment by the vice squad was a very real threat. The accusation was tantamount to the conviction, particularly as to employers, authority figures, parents, family, community. This was a de-facto suspension of civil rights: freedom of assembly; freedom of association; freedom from harassment; threat, coercion, intimidation, habeas corpus, rights to privacy, and so on. Our lives were dismissed out of hand. Like the Jews in 1940's Europe, our very existence was taken from us. Like theirs, our very livelihood was at stake. We were relegated to the fringes of society, forced to live in shame and in secrecy. Certainly this did not provide a conducive atmosphere for
Download or read book Real Time Optimization by Extremum Seeking Control written by Kartik B. Ariyur and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-10-03 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-close look at the theory behind and application of extremum seeking Originally developed as a method of adaptive control for hard-to-model systems, extremum seeking solves some of the same problems as today's neural network techniques, but in a more rigorous and practical way. Following the resurgence in popularity of extremum-seeking control in aerospace and automotive engineering, Real-Time Optimization by Extremum-Seeking Control presents the theoretical foundations and selected applications of this method of real-time optimization. Written by authorities in the field and pioneers in adaptive nonlinear control systems, this book presents both significant theoretic value and important practical potential. Filled with in-depth insight and expert advice, Real-Time Optimization by Extremum-Seeking Control: * Develops optimization theory from the points of dynamic feedback and adaptation * Builds a solid bridge between the classical optimization theory and modern feedback and adaptation techniques * Provides a collection of useful tools for problems in this complex area * Presents numerous applications of this powerful methodology * Demonstrates the immense potential of this methodology for future theory development and applications Real-Time Optimization by Extremum-Seeking Control is an important resource for both students and professionals in all areas of engineering-electrical, mechanical, aerospace, chemical, biomedical-and is also a valuable reference for practicing control engineers.
Download or read book Constitutional Amendments Seeking to Balance the Budget and Limit Federal Spending written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial Law and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Help Seeking in Academic Settings written by Stuart A. Karabenick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on Karabenick’s earlier volume on this topic and maintaining its high standards of scholarship and intellectual rigor, Help Seeking in Academic Settings: Goals, Groups, and Contexts brings together contemporary work that is theoretically as well as practically important. It highlights current trends in the area and gives expanded attention to applications to teaching and learning. The contributors represent an internationally recognized group of scholars and researchers who provide depth of analysis and breadth of coverage. Help seeking is currently considered an important learning strategy that is linked to students’ achievement goals and academic performance. This volume not only provides answers to who, why, and when learners seek help, but raises questions for readers to consider for future research. Chapters examine: *help seeking as a self-regulated learning strategy and its relationship to achievement goal theory; *help seeking in collaborative groups; *culture and help seeking in K-12 and college contexts; *help seeking and academic support services (such as academic advising centers); *help seeking in computer-based interactive learning environments; *help seeking in response to peer harassment at school; and *help seeking in non-academic settings such as the workplace. This book is intended for researchers, academic support personnel,and graduate students across the field of educational psychology, particularly those interested in student motivation and self-regulation.
Download or read book Beyond the Stairs written by Shirley Battie and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Stairs - An Invitation to Walk into Other Dimensions is the perfect read for anyone intrigued by the capabilities of the mind. Shirley Battie’s book offers a pathway to a simple and uncomplicated method of taking the mind to a new level of awareness and understanding. Shirley shows you how to use the amazingly easy ‘Stairs Method’ for meditation – which will then unlock your mind, allowing it to enter the next dimension. In Beyond the Stairs, Shirley examines the concept of ‘Mind Walking’ (sometimes called Mind Reach or Dream Time by Shamans and Aboriginals) and through the methods taught in this book, you will start to see yourself in a new way, discovering who you truly are. You will be moved by some of the stories in Beyond the Stairs and inspired and intrigued by others.
Download or read book Uncommon Sense written by Eric Thompson and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an attempt to give people the only peace they will likely have on earth (personal peace). That peace is attainable, while international or societal peace depends on too many individuals (who dont wish peace). If you seek to make a life without the conflicts that society tells us are unavoidable, it can be done. You just need to know how and have faith that it can be accomplished (if you dont give in).
Download or read book Contract Negotiation Handbook written by P. D. V. Marsh and published by Gower Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every organization enters into agreements for purchase and supply of goods and services, and most managers have some involvement in negotiating. The Contract Negotiation Handbook explains how the need to negotiate arises and how to form a negotiating plan. It sets out a structured approach to negotiation through all its various stages - preparing to negotiate, the opening of negotiations and how these develop at the negotiating table, and the closing and recording of the bargain. The use and misuse of certain tactics in negotiation are also covered.This classic text has now been thoroughly updated and revised.
