Download or read book Just Call Me Dad written by James W. Minton Sr. Jim and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do kids come with an owner’s manual? This book is about Jim Minton’s journey of figuring out how to raise his kids and learning a lot about himself in the process. When Jim’s children were born, he focused on raising Division I athletes who would make him look good. He started off as that obnoxious dad we have all witnessed at sporting events. He ended up with thirteen principles for improving himself, plus three amazing kids who bring him great joy as they walk in the truth. Jim loves good quotes. He kept a list on the refrigerator as his kids grew up, many of them coming from legendary basketball coach John Wooden. Jim knew his kids were going to find the bad stuff on their phones and in the culture; it was up to him to get the good stuff in front of them. Along the way, Jim discovered that the Bible is the owner’s manual he was looking for.

Download or read book Philosophical Investigations from The Sanctity of the Press written by Henry Dribble and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In some cultures this would be the front cover, you have to travel their roads on the left which they call the right. Use breeds context which of course is the source of all meaning. We all take context for granted, don't we? Do you know where your context is right now? You know how we can listen to certain music, and participate for a while? We don't have to hum, we just feel part of it, well we do become part of it, as the riff goes roundabout. Now, if you read Henry's book slowly, open yourself, like the book will be open to you, then you will become part of this book's thoughts. It's the same. Yes, there are stories and we all get lost in stories, but there are also streets of thought, new and changing perspectives. You will make new associations, seeing old ones for the first time for what they really are, just one of many possibilities. And then, you will realize that philosophy and music can be one and the future, if we just make it so. This book will appeal to those who like jam or jazz music. Ever drive down Sunset and see the hawkers with maps to the rich and famous in the hills? The maps help tourist drive by the gates and supposedly learn who lies beyond and within. Well, the attached has a map of sorts, dedicated and inspired by Ludwig Wittgenstein. It shows how to take roads to see what lurks beyond the gates of ourselves and how we think. Some think it a bit more worthwhile. Has the Age of the Philosopher Warrior begun? --Harry P. Holmes, author of The Greatest Golf Book Ever Written

Download or read book Russian Culture At The Crossroads written by Dmitri N Shalin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reexamination of values that began during the USSRs last years continues today in the search for a new Russian culture, one rooted in the pre-Soviet past but dynamic and evolving. Multi-textual, polyphonic, and contradictory, the current Russian cultural discourse is richly reflected in these essays by a diverse group of authors from Russian and American academic and cultural circles. The chapters explore specific cultural domains, surveying Russian and Soviet beliefs and behaviors, and highlighting the range of choices that Russians are facing at this critical juncture. }During the waning years of Soviet power, glasnost laid bare the distress of people trapped in a system they despised but felt powerless to change. The reexamination of values that began then continues today in the search for a new Russian culture, one rooted in the pre-Soviet past but dynamic and evolving, enabling Russians to meet the challenges they face in the contemporary world. Multi-textual, polyphonic, and contradictory, the current Russian cultural discourse is richly reflected in these essays by a diverse group of authors from Russian and American academic and cultural circles. Each chapter focuses on a particular cultural domain, surveying the historical origins of Russian beliefs and behaviors, exploring their Soviet and post-Soviet permutations, and highlighting the range of choices that Russians are facing at this critical juncture. The decisions they make will shape their society and culture for generations to come.Illuminating the universal significance of the Soviet experience, this volume raises provocative questions about the social, political, and economic sources of cultural change.

Download or read book Dead Letter written by Warren Murphy and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dead Letter, Digger’s boss’s daughter is the next name on a college chain letter that has led to a string of murders—and her daddy is afraid she will be next.

Download or read book The Person written by Dan P. McAdams and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-12-22 with total page 1244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on cutting-edge scientific research, classic personality theories, and stirring examples from biography and literature, The Person presents a lively and integrative introduction to the science of personality psychology. Author, Dan McAdams, organizes the field according to a broad conceptual perspective that has emerged in personality psychology over the past 10 years. According to this perspective, personality is made up of three levels of psychological individuality - dispositional traits, characteristic adaptations (such as motives and goals), and integrative life stories. Traits, adaptations, and stories comprise the three most recognizable variations on psychological human nature, grounded in the human evolutionary heritage and situated in cultural and historical context. The fifth edition of this beautifully written text expands and updates research on the neuroscience of personality traits and introduces new material on personality disorders, evolution and religion, attachment in adulthood, continuity and change in personality over the life course, and the development of narrative identity.

Download or read book Best Life written by and published by . This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Life magazine empowers men to continually improve their physical, emotional and financial well-being to better enjoy the most rewarding years of their life.

Download or read book The FBI Wife written by Sandra Windsor and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “There would be another house to make a home, a relationship to repair and a heart to make happy with a new determination” Sandy, a 1960’s FBI wife, finds herself in territory for which there seems to be no roadmap, yet she knows she is somewhere important, an observer and a participant in an unfolding scene which is impacting her as she moves from assignment to assignment across country under Hoover’s rigid FBI expectations. Caught in this world, juxtaposed against the social explosions of the time, Sandy takes the reader on an emotional journey across country, through the trauma of the Kennedy assassination, Martin Luther King’s Selma march and.the war on organized crime, knowing all the while she is giving up more and more of herself. They are a couple marching out of step, searching for a connection. Sandy aspires for a partnership based on trust and shared aspirations; Cliff is seduced by the danger of working high profile criminal cases. She must find that person lurking within, separate from her identity as an FBI wife. “My river’s life echoed my own as I searched, manipulated, pressed on, gave up to finally reach a place I hadn’t been before.” Sandra Windsor’s FBI Wife beautifully explores what it’s like to live next to big moments in history, to hold home and family together as your partner engages in the headline events of your time. William Haywood Henderson, author of Augusta Locke

Download or read book Double Lover written by Anonymous and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Miss, you're also a boy!" exclaims a startled gynecologist when Millie Nemos is sixteen. Her poetic memoirs, with extraordinary sexual recollections, reveal a life propelled from a sensitive girl who wants only her brother's love, to a Harvard Man who impregnates himself by accident, to a controversial archaeologist who finds Ice Age skeletons in scandalous positions, to a double-sexed CEO who wants the whole country's love. Double Lover is a hoot-an erotic comedy-"a ribald, hugely entertaining tale of sexual encounters and torrid love affairs in far-flung locales... Wanders hilariously all over the sexual landscape."* *Kirkus Review

Download or read book Best Life written by and published by . This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Life magazine empowers men to continually improve their physical, emotional and financial well-being to better enjoy the most rewarding years of their life.

Download or read book Unearthed written by Lara Stauffer and published by Cedar Fort Publishing & Media. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matt's spent years resenting his father and the church, but a once-in-a-lifetime archaeology trip forces Matt to face more than he bargained for as he and his father unearth a city that's been lost for centuries. This thrilling adventure is bursting with laugh out loud humor, a touch of romance, and more than a little mystery. A fun read for the whole family!

Download or read book Hermaphrodeity written by Alan Friedman and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comic novel of a character who frequently changed sex.--Jim Kepner.

Download or read book My Therapist Says written by My Therapist Says and published by Rock Point. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the team behind the super-popular Instagram @MyTherapistSays comes this humorous guide that chronicles the exhausting task of navigating the daily, anxiety-ridden struggle that we fondly call life. Including hilarious memes MTS is known and loved for, along with checklists, prompts, questions from readers, and more, My Therapist Says is the guide you need to achieve your goals, one wrong turn at a time. Have you ever wanted something, pursued it (albeit not quite as gracefully as you would’ve hoped), failed, and then genuinely asked yourself the question, “Am I delusional?” Well, that’s how I began penning this magnum opus. Like the Buddhist’s have their Tripitaka, you have…moi. And my therapist, though it’s unlikely she’ll admit this in public. On the receiving end of a ghosting session? Needing a way to leave a work function without looking like a buzzkill? Having a hard time developing amnesia about your last relationship? Fear not, as I cover everything from circumstantial etiquette to blissful delusion when necessary. So, grab a pen, a box of tissues, a glass of wine, and your bestie, because sh*t is about to get real. And remember, be yourself, be kind, and all that jazz, unless you’re a Susan*. If that’s the case, try to be literally anyone else. Ugh, my therapist hates that I wrote that. *Susan: Noun and verb. Unpleasant, annoying, and delusional, the Susan is somebody who is literally awful in every way, is liked by no one, but has no clue, no matter how many open clues you give her. If you roll your eyes at this, you’re probably a Susan. Uses: Susaning, Susanism. For even more on navigating the mystical tornado of life, get the companion coloring book: My Therapist Says...to Color: Ignore Reality and Color Over 50 Designs Because You Can't Even.

Download or read book Marital Conflict and Children written by E. Mark Cummings and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From leading researchers, this book presents important advances in understanding how growing up in a discordant family affects child adjustment, the factors that make certain children more vulnerable than others, and what can be done to help. It is a state-of-the-science follow-up to the authors' seminal earlier work, Children and Marital Conflict: The Impact of Family Dispute and Resolution. The volume presents a new conceptual framework that draws on current knowledge about family processes; parenting; attachment; and children's emotional, physiological, cognitive, and behavioral development. Innovative research methods are explained and promising directions for clinical practice with children and families are discussed.

Download or read book Pencils Down written by Wayne Au and published by Rethinking Schools. This book was released on 2012 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This powerful collection from the groundbreaking Rethinking Schools magazine takes high-stakes standardized tests to task. Despite overwhelming evidence that the tests are invalid ways to measure teaching and learning -- and continuing signs of their unjust effects on students and teachers -- "reformers" and policymakers continue to force high-stakes tests into the public schools. Through articles that provide thoughtful and emotional critiques from the frontlines of education, Pencils Down deconstructs the damage that standardized tests wreak on our education system and the human beings that populate it. Better yet, it offers visionary forms of assessment that are not only more authentic, but also more democratic, fair, and accurate.

Download or read book The Wisdom of Sam written by Daniel Gottlieb, Ph.D. and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An irresistible invitation to seize the moment and awaken our minds to live life fully present.” — Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., best-selling author of Mindsight In this heartfelt and generous book, author Daniel Gottlieb shares life lessons taught to him by his eight-year-old grandson, Sam. Readers were first introduced to Sam in Letters to Sam—which has been translated into 15 languages, with more than 50,000 copies sold in the U.S. Now, The Wisdom of Sam continues the extraordinary story of the interaction between a grandfather who is quadriplegic and a grandson who is autistic as they share their discoveries about empathy, compassion, courage, happiness, and the power of laughter. Sam’s uncommon perspective on the world—and the remarkable way he expresses himself—are the seeds of inspiration for his grandfather. And the emotional connection between Daniel Gottlieb and his grandson provide a springboard for wonderful moments of reflection, understanding, and humor. Sam’s candid observations not only teach us what we’ve forgotten but they also show us how to look at the world through a different lens. Just as Sam’s grandfather has found his world view forever changed by the wisdom of his grandson, readers of The Wisdom of Sam will discover unforgettable messages of acceptance, hope, love, and gratitude.

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Download or read book A Night of Stars and Snow written by Maria Ellis and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria Ellis writes about her journey out of the darkness and pain of domestic violence and child abuse. She writes about three generations of her family who have suffered from this violence and about her journey out of depression and into the light and love of God.