Download or read book You Don t Outgrow it written by Marnell L. Hayes and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for adults with learning disabilities, this book is based on the premise that learning disabilities are not outgrown and thus adults need to learn practical strategies and coping mechanisms. Some of the topics addressed in the book are: what a learning disability (LD) is, terminology, inheritance of LD, kinds of LD, discovering the existence of a learning disability, learning about oneself from school records, getting tested as an adult, understanding one's learning style (a checklist for self-evaluation is provided), helping others understand about LD, stages of adjusting to LD, counseling, support groups, dropping out of high school, going to college at any age, special services needed by LD college students, adaptations and modifications that make college programs accessible for LD students, setting priorities among household tasks, grocery shopping, cooking, organizing tasks and things, vocational rehabilitation, dressing for an interview, job interview behavior, filling out applications, letters of reference, legal rights, living with parents as an adult, possible effects of LD on love relationships and dating, communication, marriage and family life, and dealing with children's questions about a parent with LD. A glossary is provided along with a list of resources and a bibliography of 90 items. (DB)
Download or read book You ll Grow Out of It written by Jessi Klein and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Emmy award-winning comedy writer Jessi Klein, You'll Grow Out of It hilariously and candidly explores the journey of the 21st-century woman. As both a tomboy and a late bloomer, comedian Jessi Klein grew up feeling more like an outsider than a participant in the rites of modern femininity. In You'll Grow Out of It, Klein offers - through an incisive collection of real-life stories - a relentlessly funny yet poignant take on a variety of topics she has experienced along her strange journey to womanhood and beyond. These include her "transformation from Pippi Longstocking-esque tomboy to are-you-a-lesbian-or-what tom man," attempting to find watchable porn, and identifying the difference between being called "ma'am" and "miss" ("miss sounds like you weigh 99 pounds"). Raw, relatable, and consistently hilarious, You'll Grow Out of It is a one-of-a-kind book by a singular and irresistible comic voice.
Download or read book The Song written by Chris Fabry and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jed King’s life has been shaped by the songs and mistakes of his famous father. He wants to sing his own song, but the words and melody are elusive. Haunted by the scars inflicted by his broken family, Jed’s dreams of a successful music career seem out of reach . . . until he meets Rose. As romance quickly blooms, Jed pens a new song and suddenly finds himself catapulted into stardom. But with this life of fame comes temptation, the same temptation that lured his father so many years ago. Set in the fertile mid-South, this quest for success leads Jed and Rose on a journey that will force them to deal with the pain of loss, failure, and the desire to be who God created them to be. Lyrical and deeply honest, The Song asks the hard questions of love and forgiveness. When even the wisest of men are fools in love, can true love persevere?
Download or read book The Traiblazers written by Ravi Sharma and published by Vishv Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abhishek’s automobile revolution dream distant him from his father’s business ambitions. Makes a joint venture with his IIT educated friend and her beloved to fulfil his dream. His uncle also jumps into the project. Jealousy and to win the success race creates competition, and what not! A well-knit novel of suspense, rivalry, romance mixed with business ethics and manoeuvres keeps you engrossed from the first to the last page.
Download or read book Outgrowing God written by Richard Dawkins and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should we believe in God? In this brisk introduction to modern atheism, one of the world’s greatest science writers tells us why we shouldn’t. Richard Dawkins was fifteen when he stopped believing in God. Deeply impressed by the beauty and complexity of living things, he’d felt certain they must have had a designer. Learning about evolution changed his mind. Now one of the world’s best and bestselling science communicators, Dawkins has given readers, young and old, the same opportunity to rethink the big questions. In twelve fiercely funny, mind-expanding chapters, Dawkins explains how the natural world arose without a designer—the improbability and beauty of the “bottom-up programming” that engineers an embryo or a flock of starlings—and challenges head-on some of the most basic assumptions made by the world’s religions: Do you believe in God? Which one? Is the Bible a “Good Book”? Is adhering to a religion necessary, or even likely, to make people good to one another? Dissecting everything from Abraham’s abuse of Isaac to the construction of a snowflake, Outgrowing God is a concise, provocative guide to thinking for yourself. Praise for Outgrowing God “My son came home from his first day in the sixth grade with arms outstretched plaintively demanding to know: ‘Have you ever heard of Jesus?’ We burst out laughing. Maybe not our finest parenting moment, given that he was genuinely distraught. He felt that he had woken up one day to a world in which his peers were expressing beliefs he found frighteningly unreasonable. He began devouring books like The God Delusion, books that helped him formulate his own arguments and helped him stand his ground. Dawkins’s new book is special in the terrain of atheists’ pleas for humanism and rationalism precisely since it speaks to those most vulnerable to the coercive tactics of religion. As Dawkins himself says in the dedication, this book is for ‘all young people when they’re old enough to decide for themselves.’ It is also, I must add, for their parents.”—Janna Levin, author of Black Hole Blues “When someone is considering atheism I tell them to read the Bible first and then Dawkins. Outgrowing God—second only to the Bible!”—Penn Jillette, author of God, No!
Download or read book Making Peace with the Universe written by Michael Scott Alexander and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world’s great religious and philosophical traditions often include poignant testimonies of spiritual turmoil and healing. Following episodes of harrowing personal crisis, including addictions, periods of anxiety and panic, and reminders of mortality, these accounts then also describe pathways to consolation and resolution. In Making Peace with the Universe, Michael Scott Alexander reads diverse classic religious accounts as masterpieces of therapeutic insight. In the company of William James, Socrates, Muslim legal scholar turned mystic Hamid al-Ghazali, Chinggis Khan as described by the Daoist monk Qui Chuji, and jazz musician and Catholic convert Mary Lou Williams, Alexander traces the steps from existential crisis to psychological health. He recasts spiritual confessions as case histories of therapy, showing how they remain radical and deeply meaningful even in an age of scientific psychology. They record the therapeutic affect of spiritual experience, testifying to the achievement of psychological well-being through the cultivation of an edifying spiritual mood. Mixing scholarly learning with episodes from his own skeptical quest, Alexander demonstrates how these accounts of private terror and personal triumph offer a model of therapy through spiritual adventure. An interdisciplinary consideration of the shared terrain of religion and psychology, Making Peace with the Universe offers an innovative view of what spiritual traditions can teach us about finding meaning in the modern world.
Download or read book On Our Way to the Seventh Day of Creation written by Donnia Treat Bradley and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most heartbreaking experiences of my life was simply asking people questions about statements in the Bible because my life was about the Word of God. People and preachers rarely had any answer except you have to just have faith. With all the suffering in the world, as I was a child, it did not seem that faith was doing the job. So I went in search of my own answers, and this book is the surprising result. My first surprise was that it seemed the Bible followed Darwins theory up until the creation of humans. Also, there seemed to be information that followed quantum physics. Then I noticed that Genesis gave the entire creation of life from Genesis 1:1 to Genesis 2:4, and then it seemed to start an entirely new book and go into the process of how it was done. I spent almost fifty years reading and studying, and one day I realized we are still in the sixth day of creation. Man has not reached the age of perfection yet. This is also in agreement with the ages of man and the ice age. It was at this time that I felt compelled to put it into a book.
Download or read book Attention Deficit Disorder in Adults written by Lynn Weiss and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1997 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical help for ADD adult suffers, explaining what it is, how it manifests in adults, and how to cope with it.
Download or read book Debriefing written by Susan Sontag and published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short fiction from the groundbreaking essayist, novelist, and political activist includes allegories and parables as she wrestles with topics that made up her private sorrows and fears.
Download or read book The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer written by Johnny Mercer and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventh volume in Knopf’s critically acclaimed Complete Lyrics series, published in Johnny Mercer’s centennial year, contains the texts to more than 1,200 of his lyrics, several hundred of them published here for the first time. Johnny Mercer’s early songs became staples of the big band era and were regularly featured in the musicals of early Hollywood. With his collaborators, who included Richard A. Whiting, Harry Warren, Hoagy Carmichael, Jerome Kern, and Harold Arlen, he wrote the lyrics to some of the most famous standards, among them, “Too Marvelous for Words,” “Jeepers Creepers,” “Skylark,” “I’m Old-Fashioned,” and “That Old Black Magic.” During a career of more than four decades, Mercer was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song an astonishing eighteen times, and won four: for his lyrics to “On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe” (music by Warren), “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening” (music by Carmichael), and “Moon River” and “Days of Wine and Roses” (music for both by Henry Mancini). You’ve probably fallen in love with more than a few of Mercer’s songs–his words have never gone out of fashion–and with this superb collection, it’s easy to see that his lyrics elevated popular song into art.
Download or read book Dyslexia in Adults written by Kathleen Nosek and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 1997-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outlines simple plans for accommodating or compensating for the limits of dyslexia and encourages the discovery and development of individual learning and working styles.
Download or read book Lessons from My Children written by Judy Hoffman and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lessons from My Children by Judy Hoffman __________________________________
Download or read book What About the Rest of Your Life written by Sung Yim and published by Perfect Day Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their soaring and urgent debut memoir, Sung Yim captures a sleepy sad slice of Americana recognizable to anyone who’s driven past a strip mall at midnight. Equal parts grim and buoyant, here is an intimate portrait of trauma, family, addiction, and body. What About the Rest of Your Life exposes the harrowing terrain where there is no boundary between love and abuse. Unapologetically raw, Yim reinvents the recovery narrative through an immigrant's lens.
Download or read book A Bigger Prize written by Denis Gray and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When trainer Frank Black Machine Whaley of View Point, Texas, dies of a heart attack in 1946, Elegant Raines, an eighteen-year-old black prizefighter, must find a new trainer. Raines calls on Leemore Pee-Pot Manners, a boxing trainer who lives in Longwood, West Virginia. Any honest man would say Pee-Pot knows more about boxing than anyone alivewhether that man is black or white. Rainess goal is to become the heavyweight champion of the world. Under Pee-Pots tutelage Raines wins not only the middleweight championship, but the light heavyweight championship, marking him as one of the greatest fighters of his time. During his quest for the title, Raines falls in love with Gem Loving, a pastors daughter whose father, Pastor Embry O. Loving, maintains a dim view of fighters. Gem must fight for Raines in ways her father will condemn. A Bigger Prize tells a fictional story of the boxing world in the 1940s and what the sport meant to both blacks and whites of the time. It considers the question of whether Elegant Rainess bigger prize is the worlds heavyweight championshipor something outside the ring more violent than boxing and its reward.
Download or read book Outgrowing the Pain written by Eliana Gil and published by Dell. This book was released on 2009-07-22 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Anyone who had a troubled childhood ought to read this book.”—Anne H. Cohn, D.P.H., Executive Director, National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse Do you have trouble finding friends, lovers, acquaintances? Once you find them, do they dump on you, take advantage of you, or leave? Are you in a relationship you know isn't good for you? Are you still trying to figure out what you want to do when you grow up? Are you drinking too much, eating too much or trying to numb your pain with drugs of any kind? These are just a few of the problems abused children experience when they become adults. You may not realize you were abused. You may think your parents didn't mean it, didn't know better, or that others had it much worse. You may not even have made the connection between the past and your current problems. Outgrowing the Pain is an important book for any adult who was abused or neglected in childhood. It's an important book for professionals who help others. It's a book of questions that can pinpoint and illuminate destructive patterns. The answers you discover can lead to a life filled with new insight, hope, and love. “The best book available to help survivors cope and understand.”—Dan Sexton, Director, Childhelp's National Abuse Hotline “An invaluable aid for adult survivors of child abuse.”—Suzanne M. Sgroi, M.D., Executive Director, New England Clinical Associates
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Download or read book Christopher Hibbault Roadmaker written by Marguerite Bryant and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker" is an absorbing fiction with amusing characters. The captivating story of Christopher, filled with his adventures, makes an exciting read. Excerpt "Christopher's experiences of driving were of a very limited nature, and certainly they did not embrace anything like this. He had no recollection of ever having travelled by train, and it was the question of pace that fascinated him, the rapid, 'easy swinging movement through the air, the fresh breeze rushing by, the distancing of humbler wayfarers, all gave him a strange sense of exhilaration. Years afterward, when flesh and blood were all too slow for him and he was one of the best motorists in England, if not in Europe, he used to recall the rapturous pleasure of that first drive of his, that first introduction to the mad, tense joy of speed that ever after held him in thrall."
