Download or read book Shortcuts to Inner Peace written by Ashley Davis Bush and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding serenity every day...in the everyday things we do. It can be a challenge to reach a calm and relaxed mindset, especially in our modern world. But in Shortcuts to Inner Peace, Ashley Davis Bush helps readers learn how to hit the pause button amidst the chaos with a spirit of mindfulness-linking fast, easy, and restorative respites to ordinary everyday activities. Once people begin to integrate these shortcuts into their daily lives, they begin to happen automatically. And when that happens, inner peace will no longer be a brief state of mind, but a way of life.

Download or read book A Shortcut Through Time written by George Johnson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkably illustrative and thoroughly accessible look at one of the most intriguing frontiers in science and computers, award-winning New York Times writer George Johnson reveals the fascinating world of quantum computing—the holy grail of super computers where the computing power of single atoms is harnassed to create machines capable of almost unimaginable calculations in the blink of an eye. As computer chips continue to shrink in size, scientists anticipate the end of the road: A computer in which each switch is comprised of a single atom. Such a device would operate under a different set of physical laws: The laws of quantum mechanics. Johnson gently leads the curious outsider through the surprisingly simple ideas needed to understand this dream, discussing the current state of the revolution, and ultimately assessing the awesome power these machines could have to change our world.

Download or read book The Execution Shortcut written by Jeroen De Flander and published by . This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strategy journey to success is long and dangerous. Most strategies lose between 40 and 60 percent of their financial potential along the execution highway. There is a path that will make the trip dramatically shorter. It exists in every organization, but mostly stays hidden. With the help of science, we'll uncover The Execution Shortcut. There are three prerequisites: (1) The Head connection - people need to be aware of your strategy; (2) The Heart connection - people need to care about your strategy; (3) The Hands connection - people need the energy to push your strategy forwards.

Download or read book My Journey with Maya written by Tavis Smiley and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable story of friendship, love, and courage. When Maya Angelou and Tavis Smiley met in 1986, he was twenty-one and she was fifty-eight. For the next twenty-eight years, they shared an unlikely, special bond. Angelou was a teacher and a maternal figure to Smiley, and they talked often, of art, politics, history, race, religion, music, love, purpose, and -- more than anything -- courage. Courage to be open, to follow dreams, to believe in oneself. In My Journey with Maya, Smiley recalls a joyful friendship filled to the brim with sparkling conversation -- in Angelou's gardens surrounded by her caged birds, before lectures, sharing meals, and on breaks from it all, they sought each other out for comfort, advice, and above all else, friendship. It began when he, a recent college graduate and a poor kid from a big family in the Midwest, was invited to join the revered writer on a sojourn to Africa. He would be handling her bags, but Maya didn't let that stop a friendship waiting to happen. Angelou was generous, challenging, and inspirational. Like a mother to him, she was selfless. Here Tavis Smiley shares his personal memories of Maya Angelou, of a decades-long friendship with one of history's most fascinating women, one who left as indelible an imprint on American culture as she did on him.

Download or read book Short Cuts written by Raymond Carver and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-05-25 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From “one of the great short story writers of our time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer)—nine stories and a poem that offer a searing portrait of American innocence and loss—and formed the basis for the film “Short Cuts” directed by Robert Altman. With deadpan humor and enormous tenderness, this is the work of “one of the true contemporary masters” (The New York Review of Books). Features stories from the collections Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, Where I’m Calling From, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and A New Path to the Waterfall; including an introduction by Robert Altman.

Download or read book A Shortcut to Drunkard s Path written by Ann Frischkorn and published by That Patchwork Place. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book There Are No Shortcuts written by Rafe Esquith and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-11-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Year after year, Rafe Esquith’s fifth-grade students excel. They read passionately, far above their grade level; tackle algebra; and stage Shakespeare so professionally that they often wow the great Shakespearen actor himself, Sir Ian McKellen. Yet Esquith teaches at an L.A. innercity school known as the Jungle, where few of his students speak English at home, and many are from poor or troubled families. What’s his winning recipe? A diet of intensive learning mixed with a lot of kindness and fun. His kids attend class from 6:30 A.M. until well after 4:00 P.M., right through most of their vacations. They take field trips to Europe and Yosemite. They play rock and roll. Mediocrity has no place in their classroom. And the results follow them for life, as they go on to colleges such as Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford. Possessed by a fierce idealism, Esquith works even harder than his students. As an outspoken maverick of public education (his heroes include Huck Finn and Atticus Finch), he admits to significant mistakes and heated fights with administrators and colleagues. We all—teachers, parents, citizens—have much to learn from his candor and uncompromising vision.

Download or read book No Shortcuts to the Top written by Ed Viesturs and published by Crown. This book was released on 2006-10-17 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This gripping and triumphant memoir from the author of The Mountain follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time. “From the drama of the peaks, to the struggle of making a living as a professional climber, to the basic how-tos of life at 26,000 feet, No Shortcuts to the Top is fascinating reading.”—Aron Ralston, author of Between a Rock and a Hard Place and subject of the film 127 Hours For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Shortcuts to the Top is as much about the man who would become the first American to achieve that goal as it is about his stunning quest. As Viesturs recounts the stories of his most harrowing climbs, he reveals a man torn between the flat, safe world he and his loved ones share and the majestic and deadly places where only he can go. A preternaturally cautious climber who once turned back 300 feet from the top of Everest but who would not shrink from a peak (Annapurna) known to claim the life of one climber for every two who reached its summit, Viesturs lives by an unyielding motto, “Reaching the summit is optional. Getting down is mandatory.” It is with this philosophy that he vividly describes fatal errors in judgment made by his fellow climbers as well as a few of his own close calls and gallant rescues. And, for the first time, he details his own pivotal and heroic role in the 1996 Everest disaster made famous in Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air. In addition to the raw excitement of Viesturs’s odyssey, No Shortcuts to the Top is leavened with many funny moments revealing the camaraderie between climbers. It is more than the first full account of one of the staggering accomplishments of our time; it is a portrait of a brave and devoted family man and his beliefs that shaped this most perilous and magnificent pursuit.

Download or read book Scrum Shortcuts Without Cutting Corners written by Ilan Goldstein and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2014 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Scrum Shortcuts without Cutting Corners, Scrum expert Ilan Goldstein helps the reader translate the Scrum framework into reality to meet the Scrum challenges formal training never warned about. Drawing on his extensive agile experience in a wide range of projects and environments, Goldstein presents thirty proven, flexible shortcuts for optimizing Scrum processes, actions, and outcomes. Each shortcut walks the reader through applying a Scrum approach to achieve a tangible output. These easy-to-digest, actionable patterns address a broad range of topics including getting started, quality and metrics, team members and roles, managing stakeholders, estimation, continuous improvement and much more.

Download or read book Architecture of Computing Systems ARCS 2011 written by Mladen Berekovic and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-02-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS 2011, held in Lake Como, Italy, in February 2011. The 22 revised full papers presented in seven technical sessions were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on customization and application specific accelerators; multi/many-core architectures; adaptive system architectures; processor architectures; memory architectures optimization; organic and autonomic computing; network-on-chip architectures.

Download or read book Be A Shortcut written by Scott G. Halford and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-12-22 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortcut is the new catchphrase that identifies high-quality, influence and value in employees and executives. Be A Shortcut is a business book that provides new frameworks and tactics to help a broad range of individuals become the professionals their company can't live without. The book shows you how to actually become a Shortcut using Halford's proven, Shortcut success formula. You'll gain more influence, become more valuable, get promoted faster, find better customers, get better raises - no matter what you do. Shortcut is a way of thinking, a way of doing, a way of being - and when you commit yourself to it, you'll write your own ticket to wherever you want to go.

Download or read book Algorithms ESA 2002 written by Rolf H. Möhring and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-09-02 with total page 941 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms, ESA 2002, held in Rome, Italy, in September 2002. The 74 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 201 submissions. The papers address all current issues in Algorithmics, in particular computational biology, computational finance, computational geometry, databases and information retrieval, external memory algorithms, graph and network algorithms, graph drawing, algorithmic learning, network design, online algorithms, parallel and distributed computing, pattern matching, data compression, quantum computing, randomized algorithms, and symbolic computation.

Download or read book Experimental Algorithms written by Paola Festa and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-05-07 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms, SEA 2010, held on Ischia Island, Naples, Italy, in May 2010. The 40 revised full papers presented together with two invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions. The topics covered include algorithm engineering, algorithmic libraries, algorithmic mechanism design, analysis of algorithms, algorithms for memory hierarchies, approximation techniques, bioinformatics, branch and bound algorithms, combinatorial and irregular problems, combinatorial structures and graphs, communication networks, complex networks, computational geometry, computational learning theory, computational optimization, computer systems, cryptography and security, data streams, data structures, distributed and parallel algorithms, evaluation of algorithms for realistic environments, experimental techniques and statistics, graph drawing, heuristics for combinatorial optimization

Download or read book Spectatorship written by Michele Aaron and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michele Aaron cuts a lucid path through the dense undergrowth of the debate on spectatorship. She revisits the classics of Hollywood and explores films from beyond the mainstream, such as 'Dogme 95' to explore the nature of seeing and spectatorship.

Download or read book No Shortcut to Change written by Kara Ellerby and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acknowledgments -- Add gender and stir -- Gender equality and the illusion of progress -- Dual and dueling gender in global narratives -- The "problem" with women's representation in government -- The "problem" with recognizing women's economic rights -- The "problem" with protecting women from violence -- Beyond add-women politics -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the author

Download or read book A Short Path to Change written by Jenny Mannion and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to identify and release old patterns and behaviors, navigate challenges, and stay in the present moment to maximize positive results. Join intuitive healer Jenny Mannion as she shares her own journey to healing after years of chronic illness and demonstrates how it helped create her unique program. Whether your goal is to increase your positive energy, experience vibrant good health, or improve your overall quality of life, A Short Path to Change offers support and encouragement every step of the way. This empowering book also guides you through a variety of modalities, including: Energy Healing Balancing Chakras Intention Setting Forgiveness Moving Past Your Ego Gratitude Love and Connectivity Manifestation Patience with Yourself and Others Affirmations Praise: "[Jenny Mannion's] system is proven, precise, and compelling. A must for seekers of true change."—Cyndi Dale, author of The Complete Book of Chakra Healing and Llewellyn's Complete Book of Chakras "Jenny Mannion's book, A Short Path to Change, is immensely empowering and will help you reach a mind-body connection beyond what you dreamed possible. I highly recommend this book!"—Dr. Steve G. Jones, Clinical Hypnotherapist "Medical intuitive and healer Mannion, who claims to have cured her own long-term chronic illness in three weeks, offers a program aimed at helping readers do the same. Step by step, Mannion explains her healing and empowering techniques. She suggests a variety of helpful processes: forgiveness and attention shifting, energy healing and affirmations, and ways to strengthen the chakras. Even absent a chronic illness, Mannion writes, discovering and strengthening "inner power"—she explains this as the connection between mind and body—is a form of healing. She says that by following her instructions, readers can first change thought patterns and then become a partner to the body's healing mechanisms. This book will appeal to those who may be frustrated with traditional medical avenues and are ready to explore alternative ways of healing themselves."—Publishers Weekly

Download or read book Algorithms and Complexity written by Marios Mavronicolas and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-24 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Algorithms and Complexity, CIAC 2023, which took place in Larnaca, Cyprus, during June 13–16, 2023. The 25 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. They cover all important areas of research on algorithms and complexity such as algorithm design and analysis; sequential, parallel and distributed algorithms; data structures; computational and structural complexity; lower bounds and limitations of algorithms; randomized and approximation algorithms; parameterized algorithms and parameterized complexity classes; smoothed analysis of algorithms; alternatives to the worst-case analysis of algorithms (e.g., algorithms with predictions), on-line computation and competitive analysis, streaming algorithms, quantum algorithms and complexity, algorithms in algebra, geometry, number theory and combinatorics, computational geometry, algorithmic game theory and mechanism design, algorithmic economics (including auctions and contests), computational learning theory, computational biology and bioinformatics, algorithmic issues in communication networks, algorithms for discrete optimization (including convex optimization) and algorithm engineering.