Download or read book Waymaking written by Helen Mort and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waymaking is an anthology of prose, poetry and artwork by women who are inspired by wild places, adventure and landscape. Published in 1961, Gwen Moffat's Space Below My Feet tells the story of a woman who shirked the conventions of society and chose to live a life in the mountains. Some years later in 1977, Nan Shepherd published The Living Mountain, her prose bringing each contour of the Cairngorm mountains to life. These pioneering women set a precedent for a way of writing about wilderness that isn't about conquering landscapes, reaching higher, harder or faster, but instead about living and breathing alongside them, becoming part of a larger adventure. The artists in this inspired collection continue Gwen and Nan's legacies, redressing the balance of gender in outdoor adventure literature. Their creativity urges us to stop and engage our senses: the smell of rain-soaked heather, wind resonating through a col, the touch of cool rock against skin, and most importantly a taste of restoring mind, body and spirit to a former equanimity. With contributions from adventurers including Alpinist magazine editor Katie Ives, multi-award-winning author Bernadette McDonald, adventurers Sarah Outen and Anna McNuff, renowned filmmaker Jen Randall and many more, Waymaking is an inspiring and pivotal work published in an era when wilderness conservation and gender equality are at the fore.
Download or read book Human Becomings written by Roger T. Ames and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title In Human Becomings, Roger T. Ames argues that the appropriateness of categorizing Confucian ethics as role ethics turns largely on the conception of person that is presupposed within the interpretive context of classical Chinese philosophy. By beginning with first self-consciously and critically theorizing the Confucian conception of persons as the starting point of Confucian ethics, Ames posits that the ultimate goal will be to take the Confucian tradition on its own terms and to let it speak with its own voice without overwriting it with cultural importances not its own. He argues that perhaps the most important contribution Confucian philosophy can make to contemporary ethical, social, and political discourse is the conception of focus-field, relationally constituted persons as a robust alternative to the ideology of individualism with single actors playing to win.
Download or read book AI The Microsoft Way Making Technology Accessible to All written by M.B. Chatfield and published by . This book was released on with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence (AI), Microsoft stands as a beacon of innovation and accessibility. From its early forays into AI research to its groundbreaking advancements in natural language processing, machine learning, and deep learning, Microsoft has consistently demonstrated its commitment to making AI a transformative force for good. Unlocking the Power of AI for Everyone This book delves into Microsoft's groundbreaking approach to AI accessibility, highlighting its unwavering dedication to making this powerful technology available to everyone, regardless of background or expertise. Explore how Microsoft seamlessly integrates AI into its products and services, empowering individuals from researchers and developers to everyday users to harness the full potential of AI. Empowering Businesses and Communities Witness how Microsoft's AI-driven solutions are revolutionizing industries worldwide, from healthcare and education to finance and manufacturing. Discover how AI is empowering businesses to optimize operations, enhance customer experiences, and drive innovation. Bridging the Gap Between Technology and Humanity Delve into Microsoft's commitment to building a future where AI seamlessly integrates with human capabilities, fostering collaboration and augmenting human potential. Explore how Microsoft is fostering ethical AI practices, ensuring that AI is developed and used responsibly to benefit society as a whole. A Must-Read for AI Enthusiasts and Visionaries Whether you're a seasoned AI professional, a curious individual seeking to understand the transformative power of AI, or a visionary seeking to harness AI for positive change, this book is an essential guide to Microsoft's groundbreaking approach to AI accessibility. Join Microsoft on its transformative journey to unlock the power of AI for all and create a brighter, more inclusive future. AI: The Microsoft Way – Making Technology Accessible to All is a compelling narrative that exemplifies Microsoft's unwavering commitment to bridging the gap between technology and humanity, empowering individuals and organizations to harness the transformative power of AI to create a better tomorrow.
Download or read book Project Management the Agile Way Second Edition written by John C. Goodpasture and published by J. Ross Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “…a well written and content rich book. From a teacher's perspective, using this book in an advanced project management seminar challenges students to understand the application of these concepts.” —Alexander Walton, PMP, IT consultant to the University of California at Berkeley Widely acclaimed as one of the top agile books in its first edition, Project Management the Agile Way has now been updated and redesigned by popular demand. This second edition is in a modular format to facilitate training and advanced course instruction, and provides new coverage of agile, such as hybrid agile methods, the latest public sector practices, and a chapter dedicated to transitioning to agile. It discusses the “grand bargain” between project management and business; the shift in dominance from plans to product and from input to output; and introduces new concepts such as return on benefit. Experienced practitioners and students that want to learn how to make agile work effectively in the enterprise should read this book. Individuals preparing for the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®examination, and training providers developing courses, will find this second edition quite helpful.
Download or read book The Waymakers Clearing the Path to Workplace Equity with Competence and Confidence written by Tara Jaye Frank and published by Amplify Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond strategies and systems, what really drives workplace equity and inclusion? The truth is that all historically excluded professionals who have broken through to greater levels of belonging and achievement have succeeded not by systems change alone, but because influential leaders chose to remove barriers, open doors, and guide them toward their goals. The bottom line? Someone made a way for them. Using case studies, data, and evocative storytelling, Frank outlines how leaders with power and position can clear the path to workplace equity by - discovering where you are on your equity journey today; - embracing the steps required to achieve true equity; - understanding what your employees really want from you; - developing a lens for the big barriers and intervention opportunities; - connecting the dots between meeting talent needs and unlocking company value; - recognizing when Waymaking matters most; and - showing up--every day--as a leader who makes a way. The Waymakers not only makes a compelling case for change. It also teaches you how to facilitate that change. Once you've read it, you'll understand why the question is not what drives equity and inclusion, but who. And the answer is you.
Download or read book Way Making by Moonlight New Selected Poems written by Bill Yake and published by Empty Bowl Press. This book was released on 2020-10-10 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Thoughtful, lyrical, and startling poems of natural history and environmental consciousness. WAY-MAKING BY MOONLIGHT is a travel journal, the map of a lifetime measured in observations, interactions, and discoveries. It is alive with fresh perspectives on natural phenomena including the curious ways of humanity, and it is full of observations and music--discoveries encountered on the trail, in conversations, and in arcane volumes filed on the back shelves of second-hand bookstores.
Download or read book We Travel an Appointed Way written by A. W. Tozer and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2010-08-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The difference is humility... In this compilation of 39 editorials from A.W. Tozer, readers will enjoy eloquent distillations of the Reformation faith. Knowing God deeply and intimately brings purpose and meaning to life and should be the Christian's highest goal, and these essays will help that endeavor. To the child of God, there is no such thing as accident. “We travel an appointed way,” says Tozer. The paths we tread were chosen for us when as yet we were not, when as yet we only existed in God’s mind. Our way is ordered by the secret script of God's hidden providence, and true faith displaces any possibility for chance or misfortune. Tozer tells us that we are full of life filled with providences and plans laid out from above. He urges us not to think we are simply God's pawns, for that is the attitude of the unbeliever, whereas the true follower of Christ will know that he is one of God's beloved! The difference is humility.
Download or read book Ways of Worldmaking written by Nelson Goodman and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a workable notion of the kinds of skills and capacities that are central for those who work in the arts.
Download or read book Metaphor and Meaning written by Constance A. Cook and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2024-07-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Metaphor and Meaning, scholars from China, the United States, and Europe draw on Sarah Allan's groundbreaking application of conceptual metaphor theory to the study of early Chinese philosophy and material culture. Conceptual metaphor theory treats metaphors not just as linguistic expressions but as fundamental structures of thought that define one's conceptual system and perception of reality. To understand another culture's worldview, then, hinges upon identifying the right metaphors, through which it then becomes possible to navigate between shared and unshared experiences. The contributors pursue lines of argument that complement, enhance, or challenge Allan's prior investigations into these root metaphors of early Chinese philosophy, whether by explicitly engaging with conceptual metaphor theory or, more indirectly, by addressing meaning construction in a broader sense. Like Allan's interpretative works, Metaphor and Meaning interrogates both transmitted traditions and newly unearthed archaeological finds to understand how people in early China thought about the cosmos, society, and themselves.
Download or read book Naturalistic Study of Wilderness Recreation written by Robert Denis Carter and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Metaphysical Representations to Aesthetic Life written by Massimiliano Lacertosa and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2023-07-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is "Chinese philosophy?" What is "philosophy" itself? How can one understand unfamiliar philosophical stances? How can comparison become a prominent philosophical tool? In this book, Massimiliano Lacertosa examines these questions by proposing an ethical understanding of the aesthetic encounter with the other and the world. Through the analysis of the works of Laozi, Zhuangzi, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, among others, this book explores the possibilities of stepping out of the anthropocentric standpoint and seeing the relation of objects in the world under a different light. This implies a shift from the metaphysical representation of the world divided between the sensible and the supersensible to an aesthetic and undivided experience of the world in which one partakes in the constant transformation of the myriad things. Approachable yet rigorous, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the most fundamental issues of philosophy and in the challenges of doing philosophy in a multicultural context.
Download or read book Luke on the Loose written by Harry Bliss and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young boy's fascination with pigeons soon erupts into a full-blown chase around Central Park, across the Brooklyn Bridge, through a fancy restaurant, and into the sky.
Download or read book The Alliance Way written by Tina M. Owen-Moore and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite heightened attention to the problem, bullying remains a scourge in U.S. schools, linked to a myriad of negative outcomes including substance abuse, suicides, and school shootings. As a young high school teacher, Tina Owen-Moore saw the damage being done by bullying first-hand and despaired. A former victim of bullying herself, Owen-Moore did what she could to help students see the harm and prevent it. But in 2005, when she and her fellow Milwaukee teachers were offered the opportunity to start new schools, Owen-Moore "knew what she had to do" - create a school in which bullying was not the norm. In The Alliance Way, Owen-Moore details the beliefs and practices that have made the Alliance School of Milwaukee a focus of national attention as a safe, student-centered and academically challenging school. The book illustrates how creating a safe and inclusive environment goes beyond a programming approach that targets bullying to a more holistic one where building relationships, restorative practices, and planning to prevent harm take center-stage.--
Download or read book Making and Mastering Wood Planes written by David Finck and published by Sterling Publishing (NY). This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching you how to make a classic plane yourself (it takes only a day or so) and how to use it in a refined manner.
Download or read book Agayuliyararput Our Way of Making Prayer written by Ann Fienup-Riordan and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the remembrances of elders who were born in the early 1900s and saw the last masked Yup’ik dances before missionary efforts forced their decline, Agayuliyararput is a collection of first-person accounts of the rich culture surrounding Yup’ik masks. Stories by thirty-three elders from all over southwestern Alaska, presented in parallel Yup’ik and English texts, include a wealth of information about the creation and function of masks and the environment in which they flourished. The full-length, unannotated stories are complete with features of oral storytelling such as repetition and digression; the language of the English translation follows the Yup’ik idiom as closely as possible. Reminiscences about the cultural setting of masked dancing are grouped into chapters on the traditional Yup’ik ceremonial cycle, the use of masks, life in the qasgiq (communal men’s house), the supression and revival of masked dancing, maskmaking, and dance and song. Stories are grouped geographically, representing the Yukon, Kuskokwim, and coastal areas. The subjects of the stories and the masks made to accompany them are the Arctic animals, beings, and natural forces on which humans depended. This book will be treasured by the Yup’ik residents of southwestern Alaska and an international audience of linguists, folklorists, anthropologists, and art historians.
Download or read book Commemorating Epimetheus written by Les Amis and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epimetheus has largely been forgotten, and yet, he was once credited with bringing humans into the world naked, unshod, without bed, and unarmed. Rather than view this condition as one of deficiency to be covered over through some kind of technical artifice, Commemorating Epimetheus describes the human condition positively in terms of its state of origin. In other words, Amis seeks to articulate the goodness of fragility. The goodness of our fragility is approached phenomenologically and described in terms of sharing, caring, meeting, dwelling, and loving. These ways of existing with one another are not merely accidental characteristics of human beings or accidental characteristics of our relations with one another, but are inherently human. That is, we come into the world dependent on the care of others; we come to share in humanness through their care, and their care enables us to meet others, dwell with others, and, perhaps, love others. Commemorating Epimetheus investigates being human in terms of our relationships with one another.
Download or read book Make It Sew Modern written by Vanessa Christenson and published by Martingale. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now you can add new dimension and texture to your life, even if you're just learning to sew. This exciting collection of fashion and home-decor patterns from Vanessa Christenson, owner of V and Co., shows how. Discover more than 20 simple sewing ideas, including eye-catching quilts, pillows, scarves, purses, and an assortment of clever embellishments Create three-dimensional flowers, raw-edge ruffles, tasteful tucks and pleats, and more Sew easy patterns and express yourself with unique designs that are just your style
