Download or read book Doing the Best I Can written by Kathryn Edin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the political spectrum, unwed fatherhood is denounced as one of the leading social problems of today. Doing the Best I Can is a strikingly rich, paradigm-shifting look at fatherhood among inner-city men often dismissed as “deadbeat dads.” Kathryn Edin and Timothy J. Nelson examine how couples in challenging straits come together and get pregnant so quickly—without planning. The authors chronicle the high hopes for forging lasting family bonds that pregnancy inspires, and pinpoint the fatal flaws that often lead to the relationship’s demise. They offer keen insight into a radical redefinition of family life where the father-child bond is central and parental ties are peripheral. Drawing on years of fieldwork, Doing the Best I Can shows how mammoth economic and cultural changes have transformed the meaning of fatherhood among the urban poor. Intimate interviews with more than 100 fathers make real the significant obstacles faced by low-income men at every step in the familial process: from the difficulties of romantic relationships, to decision-making dilemmas at conception, to the often celebratory moment of birth, and finally to the hardships that accompany the early years of the child's life, and beyond.
Download or read book Doing the Best We Can written by Fred Feldman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several years ago I came across a marvelous little paper in which Hector-Neri Castaneda shows that standard versions of act utilitarian l ism are formally incoherent. I was intrigued by his argument. It had long seemed to me that I had a firm grasp on act utilitarianism. Indeed, it had often seemed to me that it was the clearest and most attractive of normative theories. Yet here was a simple and relatively uncontrover sial argument that showed, with only some trivial assumptions, that the doctrine is virtually unintelligible. The gist of Castaneda's argument is this: suppose we understand act utilitarianism to be the view that an act is obligatory if and only if its utility exceeds that of each alternative. Suppose it is obligatory for a certain person to perform an act with two parts - we can call it 'A & B'. Then, obviously enough, it is also obligatory for this person to perform the parts, A and B. If act utilitarianism were true, we appar ently could infer that the utility of A & B is higher than that of A, and higher than that of B (because A & B is obligatory, and the other acts are alternatives to A & B).
Download or read book The Best I Can Be written by Liz Kulp and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fetal Alcohol Exposure is a leading cause of mental retardation in the western world, and effects over 40,000 infants each year. Liz was one of those children. Jodee is her adoptive mom. Together they tell their story, in an effort to break the cycle.
Download or read book Be the Best You Can be written by Kirby Puckett and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture-book autobiography by the great center fielder (1960 - 2006) from the Minnesota Twins. Puckett describes highlights of his career and simultaneously admonishes readers to believe in themselves; be good peop≤ and stay away from troublemakers, drugs, and tobacco. The book is handsomely designed, with both full-color photographs and watercolor paintings featured prominently throughout the text. A brief list of career highlights appears at the end of the book, along with "Kirby's Extra Innings," 10 pointers on leading a good life.
Download or read book Be the Best Mom You Can Be written by Marina Slayton and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marina Slayton and her husband, Gregory, best-selling author of Be a Better Dad Today, reveal the secrets to finding true joy in the sacred role of motherhood. Using story, humor, empathy, common sense, and straight talk—grounded in reality and personal experience—Be the Best Mom You Can Be helps readers from the best and most influential mothers in history. The book centers on a mother’s desire for wisdom and her commitment to the wellbeing of her husband and children and provides six time-tested principles (the Six Secrets) for being a truly great mom. In the tradition of Stormie Omartian’s and Barbara Rainey’s books, the Slaytons offer value-based inspiration, a warm and personal tone, and insightful secrets to both educate and equip moms to be the best mothers they can be. This book will help any mom who wants to grow in her sacred role. Women who need encouragement or advice or who feel ill-equipped to be mothers will find the straight-forward evangelical perspective and practical advice life-changing.
Download or read book It That the Best You Can Do written by Jim Philhower and published by Life Manifestos. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Best a Man Can Get written by John O'Farrell and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious and touching debut novel in the seriocomic Nick Hornby tradition. Michael Adams is a composer of advertising jingles who shares a bachelor pad with three other guys. He spends his days lying in bed (a minifridge positioned perfectly within reach) and playing trivia games with his underachieving roommates. And when he feels like it, Michael crosses the city and returns home to his unsuspecting wife and two small children. Michael is living a double life, stretching out his wilting salad days with imaginary business trips and fake deadlines while his wife enjoys the exhausting misery of the little ones. It’s the best thing for his marriage, Michael figures. She can care for the new loves of her life as it seems only she knows how, and he can sleep until the afternoon. Can this double life continue indefinitely? In The Best a Man Can Get, best-selling comic novelist John O’Farrell takes readers on a dark romp through the soul of the contemporary male, torn between eternal adolescence and the very real demands of fatherhood. It’s wry, witty, and surprisingly charming. “Sharp-witted slapstick.” —Publishers Weekly
Download or read book I Can Make Good Choices The Best Me I Can Be written by David Parker and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents various examples of making good choices and explains how to decide which choice is the best.
Download or read book Being the Best You Can Be written by Ian Hunt and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2006-01-31 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This management book is published in association with the Institute of Management and Leadership (ILM). Everyone is so busy rushing around doing their own thing – working, parenting, fire-fighting, trying to manage themselves and others, and in many cases just surviving. Being the Best You Can Be examines how individuals can develop themselves, control different aspects of their life, become more organised, welcome change and tackle challenges face on. Chapters discuss organisation skills, how to maintain a positive attitude, managing stress and building a successful team. Helps people: Be more confident and organised Become more positive about life and work Focus on the important things in life
Download or read book The Best Man I Can Be written by Leonard Dungey and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Best Man I Can Be is the result of Leonard Dungey’s 94 years of experiences. It has been written at the urging of family and friends, and a gut instinct on the part of the author to catalogue his experiences in the military as an African American and as the best man he can be. How does one become the best man he can be? Leonard Dungey strives to illustrate this through his own experiences—good and bad, local and abroad. His is a story to be remembered.
Download or read book I Will Be the Best Me I Can Be Second Edition Revised written by Dr Marius Potgieter and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If you are no longer a child and affected by ADHD, one thing you will not be short of is advice! I WILL BE THE BEST ME I CAN BE is different because it is written from the author's personal experience. In this second edition he has added a section recounting some events of his life as a student, a doctor and a paediatrician - first to demonstrate that the condition is no excuse for not doing your best to attain your goals and second to help you to better understand the guidelines for using and overcoming ADHD given in Part Two. Part One will prime your mind for the successful use of Part Two - and is also an absorbing and fascinating account of a life lived successfully and against the odds."
Download or read book Mine s the Best written by Crosby Bonsall and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1997-08-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two little boys meet at the beach, each sure that his balloon is better.
Download or read book Eleven Simple Keys to Being the Best Dad You Can Be written by Dominic Nueno Reyes and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adventure that I started in my mid-20s, and my experience of being a single dad into my 30s & as I am about to enter my 40s, this book was written over a course of 7 years and is a culmination based on my observations in my younger years, and what I have been doing to be the best dad I can possibly be for my daughter for over a decade. If you are about to become a dad, or you have been wondering about how to be a good dad, and actually want to be one of the few, yet have no clue what to do nor where to begin, read it, follow it - then bask in the pure joy of being a Dad.
Download or read book The Best That You Can Do written by Amina Gautier and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2023 Soft Skull-Kimbilio Publishing Prize, a collection of short stories that elaborate the realities of a diasporic existence, split identities, and the beautiful potency of meaningful connections Primarily told from the perspective of women and children in the Northeast who are tethered to fathers and families in Puerto Rico, these stories explore the cultural confusion of being one person in two places—of having a mother who wants your father and his language to stay on his island but sends you there because you need to know your family. Loudly and joyfully filled with Cousins, Aunts, Grandparents, and budding romances, these stories are saturated in summer nostalgia, and place readers at the center of the table to enjoy family traditions and holidays: the resplendent and universal language of survival for displaced or broken families. Refusing to shy away from dysfunction, loss, obligation, or interrogating Black and Latinx heritages “If we flip the channels fast enough, we can turn almost anyone Puerto Rican, blurring black and white into Boricua.” Gautier's stories feature New York neighborhoods made of island nations living with seasonal and perpetual displacement. Like Justin Torres’ We the Animals, or Quiara Alegria Hudes’ My Broken Language, it’s the characters-in-becoming—flanked by family and rich with detail—that animate each story with special frequencies, especially for readers grappling split-identities themselves.
Download or read book Respect The Best Me That I Can Be written by Rose Angebrandt and published by Rose Angebrandt. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Follow Keigan as he learns that Respect is BIG! Sometimes you have to turn a WRONG into a RIGHT! THAT is showing RESPECT."--Amazon.com.
Download or read book Chicken Soup for the Soul Be The Best You Can Be written by Amy Newmark and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-esteem, tolerance, values, and inner strength – these are gifts that will last children a lifetime. This book is filled with inspirational stories for children and their families to share, all about kids making good decisions, doing the right thing, and being kind. This collection shows kids positive role models to follow in its stories about making good choices, having confidence, and doing the right thing. Parents and grandparents will enjoy discussing the stories with children, making it a family event. Great for teachers to share with students, too. This book harnesses the power of storytelling to inspire and teach kids, while also entertaining them. Key issues such as bullying, tolerance, and values are addressed in stories selected from Chicken Soup for the Soul’s vast library and represent the best on these topics from the company’s 22-year history. This book is a joint project of Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Boniuk Foundation, which are working together to promote tolerance, respect, and compassion, inspiring young people and adults to embrace their differences, reject stereotypes, and make good choices. It’s part of a larger effort that includes additional books for teens, college students, parents, and grandparents, as well as a family television show every Saturday morning starting in October.
Download or read book We re All in This Together written by Mike Robbins and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build trust and achieve high performance in your business by redefining team culture. Have you ever been on a team where the talent was strong, but the team wasn’t very good? On the flip side, have you ever been on a team where not every single member was a rock star, but something about the team just worked? In this book, corporate consultant Mike Robbins dives deep into the ways great businesses build trust, collaborate, and operate at their peak level. As an expert in teamwork, leadership, and emotional intelligence, Mike draws on more than 20 years of experience working with top companies like Google and Microsoft, as well as his baseball career with the Kansas City Royals. And, while each team and organization have their own unique challenges, goals, and dynamics, there are some universal qualities that allow teams to truly come together and thrive. The book’s core principles include facilitating an environment of psychological safety, fostering inclusion and belonging, addressing and navigating conflict, and maintaining a healthy balance of high expectations and empathy. Throughout, Mike shares powerful exercises and tools he’s successfully utilized in the keynote speeches, group sessions, and corporate retreats that he delivers, so that you and your team can communicate more authentically, give and receive feedback with skill, and create deeper connections. “Mike Robbins shares tangible techniques that leaders and teams can use to excel, backs up his ideas with important research, and provides a road map for creating a team environment of personal connection and optimal performance.” — Tom Rath, New York Times best-selling co-author of How Full is Your Bucket?
