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Book Standing in the Light

Download or read book Standing in the Light written by Severt Young Bear and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1996-03-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An inside view of the Lakota world-of the meaning of Lakota song and dance, of their history, of what it is to be Lakota in America today. . . . A lasting personal tribute to the Lakota way of living."-Whole Earth Review. "A unique, in-depth presentation on Lakota music and the profession of singer, a useful contemporary Oglala representation of the core of their culture, and a version of the involvement of the American Indian Movement on Pine Ridge Reservation, told by a man who was affiliated but not a principal leader. . . . This is a subjective statement, well and persuasively written."-Choice. Severt Young Bear stood in the light-in the center ring at powwows and other gatherings of Lakota people. As founder and, for many years, lead singer of the Porcupine Singers, a traditional singing and drumming group, he also stood, figuratively, in the light of understanding the cherished Lakota heritage. Young Bear's own life in Brotherhood Community, Porcupine District of the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation, is the linchpin of this narrative, which ranges across the landscape of Dakota culture, from the significance of names to the search for modern Lakota identity, from Lakota oral traditions to powwows and giveaways, from child-rearing practices to humor and leadership. "Music is at the center of Lakota life, " says Young Bear; he describes in rich detail the origins and varieties of Lakota song and dance. Severt Young Bear performed with the Porcupine Singers throughout North America, taught at Oglala Lakota College, and served on the Oglala Sioux tribal council. He was music and dance consultant for the films Dances with Wolves and Thunder Heart. This book is the fruit of his longfriendship and collaboration with R. D. Theisz, a fellow Porcupine Singer and professor of communications and education at Black Hills State University.

Book Standing in the Way

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sarah Symons
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2021-01-08
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Standing in the Way written by Sarah Symons and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling memoir shares Anjali's incredible story of being trafficked at age twelve from her village in Nepal to the red light areas of Kolkata, India. Despite enduring the worst abuse imaginable, today Anjali is working to combat trafficking and protect the next generation of girls in her community. She is able to do so because of the help and healing she has received since being rescued in 2008. The stories of the courageous people who freed her and helped in her recovery are woven into the book alongside personal recollections and insights. This book explores the root causes of human trafficking and the factors in Anjali's family and community that made her vulnerable. It describes vividly her journey to India as a young child, and the large, complex network of traffickers. brothel owners and madams who were involved in selling, transporting and, exploiting her. The book sensitively portrays the difficult life of a young girl in a brothel. It is suitable for readers 15 and up.Anjali was eventually rescued, and the book tells that part of the story from the perspective of the rescuers as well as the girls themselves. Standing in the Way describes the innovative counseling and loving care that Anjali received after being rescued, which enabled her to recover from her trauma, develop her uniquely positive world view, and become a leader and activist. Anjali was able to return to Nepal, return to school and make up the many lost years of education. Now in college, she is planning to go back to her village and open a school and anti-trafficking charity that will prevent other girls in her village from having to suffer as she did. While child sex trafficking is a difficult subject, the book is ultimately hopeful and inspiring

Book Creativity  Inc   Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull  Amy Wallace    Summarized

Download or read book Creativity Inc Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull Amy Wallace Summarized written by J.J. Holt and published by J.J. Holt. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a summary of Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace... Summarized By J.J. Holt

Book Stand in the Way   Patient Advocates Speak Out

Download or read book Stand in the Way Patient Advocates Speak Out written by Betty Tonsing, Ph.D. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patient advocates too often learn how to be one after being thrown into the deep end of a pool. Betty Tonsing's riveting and real story - and that of 250 people who responded to her survey plus twenty personal interviews - covers every possible medical experience and will help others who fi nd themselves in that deep end of the pool. If you are a patient advocate, you are not alone. After reading Stand in the Way!! Stories From Patient Advocates, you also will have the courage to know when to stand in the way. And you will no longer be ignored. Since we never know when we might be hospitalized, after reading these stories, you will never allow yourself to be admitted to a hospital or nursing home without your own patient advocate. As an accomplished researcher, management executive and global educator, Dr. Tonsing regards access to dignified, affordable and medically sound health care as matter of economic and social justice, and good business sense.

Book Creativity  Inc   The Expanded Edition

Download or read book Creativity Inc The Expanded Edition written by Ed Catmull and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The co-founder and longtime president of Pixar updates and expands his 2014 New York Times bestseller on creative leadership, reflecting on the management principles that built Pixar’s singularly successful culture, and on all he learned during the past nine years that allowed Pixar to retain its creative culture while continuing to evolve. “Might be the most thoughtful management book ever.”—Fast Company For nearly thirty years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, producing such beloved films as the Toy Story trilogy, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Up, and WALL-E, which have gone on to set box-office records and garner eighteen Academy Awards. The joyous storytelling, the inventive plots, the emotional authenticity: In some ways, Pixar movies are an object lesson in what creativity really is. Here, Catmull reveals the ideals and techniques that have made Pixar so widely admired—and so profitable. As a young man, Ed Catmull had a dream: to make the first computer-animated movie. He nurtured that dream as a Ph.D. student, and then forged a partnership with George Lucas that led, indirectly, to his founding Pixar with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter in 1986. Nine years later, Toy Story was released, changing animation forever. The essential ingredient in that movie’s success—and in the twenty-five movies that followed—was the unique environment that Catmull and his colleagues built at Pixar, based on philosophies that protect the creative process and defy convention, such as: • Give a good idea to a mediocre team and they will screw it up. But give a mediocre idea to a great team and they will either fix it or come up with something better. • It’s not the manager’s job to prevent risks. It’s the manager’s job to make it safe for others to take them. • The cost of preventing errors is often far greater than the cost of fixing them. • A company’s communication structure should not mirror its organizational structure. Everybody should be able to talk to anybody. Creativity, Inc. has been significantly expanded to illuminate the continuing development of the unique culture at Pixar. It features a new introduction, two entirely new chapters, four new chapter postscripts, and changes and updates throughout. Pursuing excellence isn’t a one-off assignment but an ongoing, day-in, day-out, full-time job. And Creativity, Inc. explores how it is done.

Book Stand All the Way Up

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sophie Hudson
  • Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
  • Release : 2020-06-16
  • ISBN : 1433643146
  • Pages : 170 pages

Download or read book Stand All the Way Up written by Sophie Hudson and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whenever you face the hard stuff—the pieces and parts of life that keep you up at night, relentlessly reminding you that the “simple and easy” path is somehow a turn you’ve missed along the way —is your first instinct to try to make it all simply go away? You might wonder if it’s possible to just ignore it, or, better yet, to burn it all down. During a particularly difficult stretch in her own life, Sophie learned that the Lord, through His Word and His people, has already provided all that we need to get up, straighten up, and stand all the way up. This book is a collection of stories full of humor, sass, and spiritual insight, revealing our God who teaches you to stand up for yourself, stand up for the people you love, stand up for the people who can’t, and stand up for the Kingdom.

Book SUMMARY   Creativity  Inc   Overcoming The Unseen Forces That Stand In The Way Of True Inspiration By Ed Catmull And Amy Wallace

Download or read book SUMMARY Creativity Inc Overcoming The Unseen Forces That Stand In The Way Of True Inspiration By Ed Catmull And Amy Wallace written by Shortcut Edition and published by Shortcut Edition. This book was released on 2021-06-20 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Our summary is short, simple and pragmatic. It allows you to have the essential ideas of a big book in less than 30 minutes. By reading this summary, you will discover how to develop the creativity of your teams by taking inspiration from the example of Pixar. You will also discover that : creativity requires taking risks and allowing yourself the right to make mistakes; to be creative, you must keep an open mind to change and novelty; a healthy corporate culture is based on sincerity among colleagues; quality must be the absolute goal, before productivity or performance; pixar's successful films are the result of a series of changes and sometimes mistakes. You have probably noticed that many startups disappear as soon as they are successful, without explanation. Why do so many companies seem unable to stay at the top? Have they lost their motivation once they have reached their goal? By following the story of Pixar animation studios, which have developed a unique corporate culture around creativity, you will learn how to recognize the obstacles that trap the creativity of your teams and become a more attentive and innovative manager. Discover the little secrets of Pixar's great successes! *Buy now the summary of this book for the modest price of a cup of coffee!

Book I Am Yoga

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan Verde
  • Publisher : Abrams
  • Release : 2015-09-08
  • ISBN : 1613128495
  • Pages : 44 pages

Download or read book I Am Yoga written by Susan Verde and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eagle soaring among the clouds or a star twinkling in the night sky . . . a camel in the desert or a boat sailing across the sea—yoga has the power of transformation. Not only does it strengthen bodies and calm minds, but with a little imagination, it can show us that anything is possible. New York Times bestselling illustrator Peter H. Reynolds and author and certified yoga instructor Susan Verde team up again in this book about creativity and the power of self-expression. I Am Yoga encourages children to explore the world of yoga and make room in their hearts for the world beyond it. A kid-friendly guide to 17 yoga poses is included.

Book The Victorian Reports

Download or read book The Victorian Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book It s on the Way

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lisa Osteen Comes
  • Publisher : Faithwords
  • Release : 2022-08-23
  • ISBN : 9781546015956
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book It s on the Way written by Lisa Osteen Comes and published by Faithwords. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heaven heard the moment you prayed. The answer to your prayer, the promise from God's Word, the dream God has placed in your heart...is on the way! At times, we all find ourselves in seasons of waiting--for our dreams to be fulfilled, our prayers to be answered, or our circumstances to change. But your dream has an appointed time and God always has victory in store for you. And the seasons of waiting don't need to be periods of discouragement or hopelessness. Instead, they can be rich periods of joy, growth and preparation for the plans and promotion that God has in store for you. In It's On the Way, Lisa Osteen Comes reminds readers that during these inevitable times in our lives, God is faithful and our current season is temporary. Lisa teaches readers how to press through challenges, quit taking shortcuts instead of trusting God to give you His best, allow God to fight your battles, and silence the enemy within, while giving encouragement and practical steps to take when you don't know what to do next.

Book Fathers and Sons  Volume 1

Download or read book Fathers and Sons Volume 1 written by Douglas Bond and published by P & R Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stand Fast in the Way of Truth" is the first in a two-volume study designed to teach men and boys to execute joyfully their God-ordained responsibilities as fathers, sons, and leaders. Bond speaks directly and firmly to sons in terms of God's expectations as they relate to His infinitely wise blueprint for manhood.

Book Robert Duncan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Duncan
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2014-01-01
  • ISBN : 0520956648
  • Pages : 927 pages

Download or read book Robert Duncan written by Robert Duncan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 927 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profoundly original yet insistent on the derivative quality of his work, transgressive yet affirmative of tradition, Robert Duncan (1919-1988) was a generative force among American poets, and his poetry and poetics establish him as a major figure in mid- and late- 20th-century American letters. This second volume of Robert Duncan’s collected poetry and plays presents authoritative annotated texts of both collected and uncollected work from his middle and late writing years (1958-1988), with commentaries on each of the five books from this period: The Opening of the Field, Roots and Branches, Bending the Bow, and the two volumes of Ground Work. The biographical and critical introduction discusses Duncan as a late Romantic and postmodern American writer; his formulation of a homosexual poetics; his development of the serial poem; the notation and centrality of sound as organizing principle; his relations with such fellow poets as Robin Blaser, Charles Olson, and Jack Spicer; his indebtedness to Alfred North Whitehead; and his collaborations with the painter Jess Collins, his lifelong partner. Texts include his anti-war poems of the 1960s and 70s, his homages to Dante and other canonical poets, and his translations from the French of Gérard de Nerval, as well as the complete Structure of Rime and Passages series.

Book Arthur s Illustrated Home Magazine

Download or read book Arthur s Illustrated Home Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book State of New York Supreme Court

Download or read book State of New York Supreme Court written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stand Up to Stand Out

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marnick Vandebroek
  • Publisher : Die Keure Publishing
  • Release : 2019-11-07
  • ISBN : 2874035742
  • Pages : 205 pages

Download or read book Stand Up to Stand Out written by Marnick Vandebroek and published by Die Keure Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you Ever dreamed of taking control of your own professionnal life, being able to convince others and move forward in your career? This book is made for you... Are you tired of bumping into corporate walls? Not getting the budget, job or promotion that you want? Are you fed up with other people always being heard, while your ideas are being ignored? Are you struggling to network and pitch your business? Is a dry mouth and shaky voice the only thing you associate with speaking in front of a group? Do you just freeze when someone is giving you a hard time in a meeting and tries to take over? If the answer is yes, then it’s time for you to STAND UP. Everybody can learn to express themselves in a powerful way. No matter what other people claim. It’s not a gift, it’s a choice. Inspiring and convincing people to take action on your ideas starts with you, your story and how you bring it. This book will show you exactly how to do that. Follow the five steps and discover how to: - raise your energy and credibility - earn attention and trust - take people into your world - become the solution - trigger action After reading this book, you will positively STAND OUT in any situation. Because standing up is the only way you can stand out in life and business. Let's inspire action! EXTRACT We are living in a rapidly changing world where disruption, digital transformation and innovation are all around us, shaping our society. More than ever we have the tools and the need to spread ideas and connect with each other, but never have people, companies and brands struggled so much to bring humans together and get ideas, visions and plans across in such a way, that they truly inspire action. This book will show you how to do just that, so you can STAND UP, express yourself in the most powerful way and STAND OUT in life and business. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Marnick Vandebroek is a frequently asked and highly rated keynote speaker and trainer on the topics of storytelling, speaking and personal branding linked to driving innovation, digital transformation and change within organizations. He helps, trains and coaches over one hundred business owners, managers and professionals all across Europe to express themselves in the most powerful way. He works with people from multinational brands to promising start-ups and scale-ups that want to inspire both themselves and others to transform their ideas into action.Marnick has a background in digital marketing, HR, stand-up comedy, is a certified NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) practitioner and just a stand-up guy. On a personal level, he is happily married to his life and business partner Natalie and has two amazing cats. In addition, he loves writing, drawing, comedy, obstacle runs and pumping iron in the gym like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Book Stand Your Ground

Download or read book Stand Your Ground written by Evan H. Offstein and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2006-08-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West Point is the ideal laboratory for studying the dynamics of character, honor, and leadership: first, it operates a comprehensive honor education and enforcement program that has been subjected to rigorous Congressional scrutiny; second, it builds all of its academic, athletic, and military programs on this bedrock of honor. As a result, West Point invests heavily in mentoring, training, and evaluation to ensure the leadership and character development of its 4,000 cadets. From Civil War General Robert E. Lee to astronaut Edwin E. Buzz Aldrin to basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, West Point has groomed leaders whose contributions far exceed the successful management of their immediate charges. By illuminating the principles by which West Point teaches leadership, Stand Your Ground not only provides a unique tour behind the scenes at this revered institution, but, more generally, imparts lessons of honor and character-building that can be adopted by any aspiring leader. Management professor and West Point graduate Evan Offstein approached leaders at the U.S. Military Academy and the Department of the Army with two primary questions: (1) How does West Point develop its leaders?; (2) Can other individuals and organizations apply these methods effectively? Two years later, after conducting extensive on-site research at West Point and with business leaders in a variety of industries, he offers unprecedented access to the process of leadership development at West Point, and practical insights that can, indeed, be applied in any type of organization that strives to operate on the principle of integrity.

Book The New Rules of Posture

Download or read book The New Rules of Posture written by Mary Bond and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-11-29 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A manual for understanding the anatomical and emotional components of posture in order to heal chronic pain • Contains self-help exercises and ergonomics information to help correct unhealthy movement patterns • Teaches how to adopt suitable posture in the modern sedentary world Many people cause their own back and body pain through their everyday bad postural and movement habits. Many sense that their poor posture is probably the root of the problem, but they are unable to change long-standing habits. In The New Rules of Posture, Mary Bond approaches postural changes from the inside out. She explains that healthy posture comes from a new sense we can learn to feel, not by training our muscles into an ideal shape. Drawing from 35 years of helping people improve their bodies, she shows how habitual movement patterns and emotional factors lead to unhealthy posture. She contends that posture is the physical action we take to orient ourselves in relation to situations, emotions, and people; in order to improve our posture, we need to examine both our physical postural traits and the self-expression that underlies the way we sit, stand, and move. The way we walk, she says, is our body’s signature. Bond identifies the key anatomical features that impact alignment, particularly in light of our modern sedentary lives, and proposes six zones that help create postural changes: the pelvic floor, the breathing muscles, the abdomen, the hands, the feet, and the head. She offers self-help exercises that enable healthy function in each zone as well as information on basic ergonomics and case histories to inspire us to think about our own habitual movements. This book is a resource for Pilates, yoga, and dance instructors as well as healthcare professionals in educating people about postural self-care so they can relieve chronic pain and enjoy all life activities with greater ease.