Download or read book Common Sense in Uncommon Times written by Pamela Meyer-Crissey and published by Granite Publishing, L.L.C.. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Change can come to us swiftly through natural disasters or manmade ones. Common Sense in Uncommon Times explores four types of personal emergencies and seven elements of short-term survivalAir, Temperature, Water, Food, Health, Community and Spiritualityall essential to our sense of security. No matter what occurs, being prepared emotionally and physically will make life easier. Learn to set up Four Sets to assist you with different emergencies, but which will also be useful even if disaster never comes. Suggestions are given on what to include in each set, and blank lists are given to customize your own needs. The book includes natural remedies, which can assist you with common health issues that can arise, and even includes what natural plants grow almost anywhere that may be helpful to your health. This expanded 2nd edition goes deeper into supporting yourself through societal changes that seem to be shifting under our feet. Are you prepared to shift along with them?
Download or read book Navigating Life s Journey written by Richard V Battle and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does it Seem Like Common Sense Has Vanished? You're not alone! How do we go forward? Our journey in life is smoother and more fruitful when we leverage the wisdom and experience of others to help us navigate our journey through these uncommon times. Navigating Life's Course uniquely combines common-sense and optimism in an easy-to-read referable format. It will restore confidence in your beliefs, encourage you to defend them, and inspire you to teach your sacred values. It includes: - 40 Proven Common-Sense Principles. - 75 Inspirational and motivational quotations. - 250 Examples of principle-proving people, places, and events. If you liked Conquering Life's Course, you'll love Navigating Life's Journey!
Download or read book Common Sense of an Uncommon Man written by Jim Denney and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the greatest presidents of the twentieth century, Ronald Wilson Reagan succeeded in renewing pride in America, strengthening the principles of family, faith, and freedom on which this nation was founded, and restoring our hope in the future. President Reagan endeared himself even to his political opponents with his self-effacing wit and irrepressible optimism. Inspiring, thoughtful, and at times downright funny, he had an amazing gift for stirring emotion, sparking debate, and calling a nation to action. Now Michael Reagan has gathered a wonderful collection of his father’s public and private words, providing a close-up portrait of our fortieth president. From hilarious one-liners to eloquent letters to intimate family moments, these selections depict Ronald Reagan in all his many roles—as a world leader, conservative icon, orator, actor, and father. Complemented by Michael Reagan’s personal and insightful commentary on his father’s life, The Common Sense of an Uncommon Man will delight you, inspire you, and motivate you to finish the job Ronald Reagan began—rebuilding the American dream.
Download or read book Common Sense Is Uncommon written by Anne Balaban and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything in your life starts with your thoughts; they direct your actions and emotions. This puts you in control of so much more of your life than you may realize. Common Sense Is Uncommon offers a collection of wisdom taken from author Anne Balaban’s motivational lectures. They are designed to inspire change in your life—whether at work, at home, or at play—by redirecting your thoughts from ones of negative anticipation to those of positive expectations. Remember: • Until you realize your strengths, you don’t have any. • Education is to the mind what exercise is to the body. • You can’t throw mud without getting dirty hands. Common Sense Is Uncommon provides an opportunity to acquire new and different ways of thinking, feeling, and doing. In order to have a more positive life, you must understand your innermost thoughts. This beautifully illustrated volume will provide you with the opportunity to find inspiration in these words and enable the changes necessary to be the person you are destined to be—always.
Download or read book Uncommon Sense Common Nonsense written by Jules Goddard and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book for managers who know that their organisations are stuck in a mindset that thrives on fashionable business theories that are no more than folk wisdom, and whose so-called strategies that are little more than banal wish lists. It puts forward the notion that the application of uncommon sense - thinking or acting differently from other organisations in a way that makes unusual sense - is the secret to competitive success. For those who want to succeed and stand out from the herd this book is a beacon of uncommon sense and a timely antidote to managerial humbug.
Download or read book Uncommon Sense in Unusual Times written by Csaba Toth and published by Icq Global Limited. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever felt that you were talking to someone and the other person had no common sense at all? No matter how hard you tried to explain your point of view, it seemed you were talking about a completely different situation. Most of us have experienced this frustration and seemingly pointless uphill battle. Have you ever considered that the other side had exactly the same feeling about you, but for a different reason? I lost my first business and ruined friendships because I used to think that speaking the same language, having common sense and good intentions, would be enough to get along with others. I was wrong. Just like most people who don't change until it hurts enough, I waited for that personal and professional slap in the face to embark on my mission to find out why people think, feel, and behave so differently; and how we can turn those differences into synergy. There are plenty of books and online courses about cultural intelligence, personal and leadership development. They tend to be informative but rarely transformative as knowledge without practice is like a teabag without hot water, potential waiting to be released. But in this hybrid book, every chapter is fully integrated with an interactive coaching platform to challenge your views on concepts you might have taken for granted and stretch your comfort zone to a point where life is going to make much more sense in these unusual times.
Download or read book Uncommon Sense Teaching written by Barbara Oakley, PhD and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Top 10 Pick for Learning Ladders’ Best Books for Educators Summer 2021 A groundbreaking guide to improve teaching based on the latest research in neuroscience, from the bestselling author of A Mind for Numbers. Neuroscientists and cognitive scientists have made enormous strides in understanding the brain and how we learn, but little of that insight has filtered down to the way teachers teach. Uncommon Sense Teaching applies this research to the classroom for teachers, parents, and anyone interested in improving education. Topics include: • keeping students motivated and engaged, especially with online learning • helping students remember information long-term, so it isn't immediately forgotten after a test • how to teach inclusively in a diverse classroom where students have a wide range of abilities Drawing on research findings as well as the authors' combined decades of experience in the classroom, Uncommon Sense Teaching equips readers with the tools to enhance their teaching, whether they're seasoned professionals or parents trying to offer extra support for their children's education.
Download or read book Uncommon Sense written by Peter Cochrane and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-08-13 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Peter Cochrane is one of our most far-sighted visionaries, and brings brilliant clarity and focus to our understanding of ourselves and our technologies, and of how profoundly each is transforming the other." -Douglas Adams, Author, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy In Uncommon Sense, Peter Cochrane's follow up to the radical 108 Tips for Time Traveller, Peter explains how very simple analysis allows the prediction of such debacles as the 3G auction and the subsequent collapse of an industry, whilst simple-minded thinking is dangerous in the context of a world that is predominantly chaotic and out of control. People balked when Peter suggested a wholesale move to eWorking, the rise of email and text messaging, and the dotcom regime mirroring the boom and bust cycle of the industrial revolution. His predictions of the use and growth of mobile devices and communication, or use of chip implants for humans to replace ID cards, passports, and medical records, or iris scanners and fingerprint readers - were all seen as unlikely. Today they are a reality. How then will the world react to his predictions as set out in Uncommon Sense of a networked world of distributed ignorance and sharing overcoming an old world of concentrated skill and control? To everything becoming 'Napsterised' in every dimension, where storage and processing power cost nothing, and become connected without the help of the old network companies? A world where individuals create their own networks, where laws of copyright and resale, and old business models have to be changed as giant industries are dragged kicking and screaming out of the 19th Century and into the 21st? Peter Cochrane poses and answers questions, suggests solutions, and raises red flags on issues that need to be addressed. Tables, diagrams, pictures and illustrations generously support all of the text, with the most difficult aspects illustrated by simulations and other material on a CD and links to a web site with an ongoing expansion of the themes addressed.
Download or read book Uncommon Sense written by Andrew Pessin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In eighteen lively chapters, Andrew Pessin examines the most unusual ideas from the ancient Greeks and contemporary thinkers, how they have influenced the course of Western thought, and why, despite being so odd, they just might be correct. -Time is an illusion. -Your thoughts do not exist inside your head. -There is no physical world -And more!
Download or read book Uncommon Sense written by J. Robert Oppenheimer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-09 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. Robert Oppenheimer, a leading physicist in the Manhattan Project, recognized that scientific inquiry and discovery could no longer be separated from their effect on political decision-making, social responsibility, and human endeavor in general. He openly addressed issues of common concern and as a scientist accepted the responsibility brought about by nuclear physics and the atom bomb. In this collection of essays and speeches, Oppenheimer discusses the shift in scientific awareness and its impact on education, the question of openness in a society forced to keep secrets, the conflict between individual concerns and public and political necessity, the future of science and its effects on future politics---in short, the common and uncommon sense we find in our modern day reality.
Download or read book Uncommon Sense written by Jill Harrington and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Gold Medal, Top Sales & Marketing Book of 2017, Top Sales & Marketing Awards You're a talented sales professional, but you face big hairy sales challenges every day and you just can't seem to get anywhere. * Why can't I get time with my prospects and clients? * Why are my benefit-loaded e-mails and phone calls falling on deaf ears? * How do I loosen the stranglehold of an established supplier? * How do I convert more leads into sales? * How do I stand out when my competition claims the exact same benefits? Same old questions, but in today's market they call for different answers. Uncommon Sense shows you how to shift your thinking and behavior to stand out from the pack and achieve bigger, better sales, faster. It's time to dispense with the common nonsense of dusty old selling imperatives (like, elevator pitches, unique value propositions, and Always Be Closing). Stop thinking like a seller, and start thinking like your customers and prospects. Uncommon Sense shows you how to shift the way you sell . . . and the results you get: * Provides a toolkit of practical strategies and tactics that will improve your access to prospects, enrich engagements with your customers, and transform your results. * Features dozens of examples of calls gone seriously wrong, career-changing stories of real salespeople, eye-opening statistics, and tips for thinking your way out of self-defeating behaviors into providing real value for clients. * Presents counter-intuitive sales thinking in bite-sized chunks for the busy salesperson who wants practical advice on specific topics. Whether you're a seasoned sales pro or a novice, a sales manager who wants to launch the team to new levels of performance, or a small business owner struggling with the selling role, Uncommon Sense is the personal sales coach you need to shift your thinking, shift your habits, and shift your performance to new heights.
Download or read book Any Sign of Life written by Rae Carson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Any Sign of Life is a heartbreaking story filled with courage, friendship, and personality. Paige Miller is the perfect team-up buddy in an apocalypse. I was with her when she lost everything, and stood right next to her when she took it all back.”—Wesley Chu, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of the War Arts Saga “A timely update to classic postapocalyptic YA.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A smart, suspenseful thriller. Totally un-put-down-able.”—Kirkus Reviews When a teenage girl thinks she may be the only person left alive in her town—maybe in the whole world—she must rely on hope, trust, and her own resilience. A harrowing and pulse-pounding survival story from New York Times–bestselling author Rae Carson. Any Sign of Life is a must-have for readers of Rick Yancey’s The 5th Wave and Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman’s Dry. Paige Miller is determined to take her basketball team to the state championship, maybe even beyond. But as March Madness heats up, Paige falls deathly ill. Days later, she wakes up attached to an IV and learns that the whole world has perished. Everyone she loves, and all of her dreams for the future—they’re gone. But Paige is a warrior. She pushes through her fear and her grief and gets through each day scrounging for food, for shelter, for safety. As she struggles with her new reality, Paige learns that the apocalypse did not happen by accident. And that there are worse things than being alone. New York Times–bestselling author Rae Carson tells a contemporary and all-too-realistic story about surviving against the odds in this near-future thriller. Any Sign of Life will electrify fans of Rory Power’s Wilder Girls and Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven.
Download or read book An Uncommon Man written by G. Wayne Miller and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2011 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only biography of Claiborne Pell, the six-term senator from Rhode Island best known as the sponsor of the educational Pell Grants
Download or read book The Thing About Jellyfish National Book Award Finalist written by Ali Benjamin and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning debut novel about grief and wonder was an instant New York Times bestseller and captured widespread critical acclaim, including selection as a 2015 National Book Award finalist! After her best friend dies in a drowning accident, Suzy is convinced that the true cause of the tragedy must have been a rare jellyfish sting--things don't just happen for no reason. Retreating into a silent world of imagination, she crafts a plan to prove her theory--even if it means traveling the globe, alone. Suzy's achingly heartfelt journey explores life, death, the astonishing wonder of the universe...and the potential for love and hope right next door. Oddlot Entertainment has acquired the screen rights to The Thing About Jellyfish, with Gigi Pritzker set to produce with Bruna Papandrea and Reese Witherspoon.
Download or read book Uncommon Sense written by Stephen D. Palmer and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... the flames of freedom are dying. We cry that Washington has failed us, but that is not where the blame lies. With our rights, We the People were given the duty to maintain them. We the People are the problem. And We the People are the solution. Our republic will be restored not through political revolution, but through a revolution of the soul-- not as we point fingers upward, but as we turn inward. In an age of blame, this is uncommon sense. And it's precisely what America needs to rekindle her light" -- Cover, p. [4]
Download or read book A Common Sense Education in Uncommon Times written by Debra Lambrecht and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-13 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty percent of American children are unable to cope! What does this mean for our children? How can we equip them with the skills necessary to successfully navigate their ever-changing world? In her groundbreaking work, "A Common Sense Education in Uncommon Times: Caulbridge," author, parent, and education expert Debra Lambrecht takes on these questions. Her answers may both surprise you and have you thinking, "Well, that makes sense!"
Download or read book These Precious Days written by Ann Patchett and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays. "The elegance of Patchett’s prose is seductive and inviting: with Patchett as a guide, readers will really get to grips with the power of struggles, failures, and triumphs alike." —Publisher's Weekly “Any story that starts will also end.” As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart. At the center of These Precious Days is the title essay, a surprising and moving meditation on an unexpected friendship that explores “what it means to be seen, to find someone with whom you can be your best and most complete self.” When Patchett chose an early galley of actor and producer Tom Hanks’ short story collection to read one night before bed, she had no idea that this single choice would be life changing. It would introduce her to a remarkable woman—Tom’s brilliant assistant Sooki—with whom she would form a profound bond that held monumental consequences for them both. A literary alchemist, Patchett plumbs the depths of her experiences to create gold: engaging and moving pieces that are both self-portrait and landscape, each vibrant with emotion and rich in insight. Turning her writer’s eye on her own experiences, she transforms the private into the universal, providing us all a way to look at our own worlds anew, and reminds how fleeting and enigmatic life can be. From the enchantments of Kate DiCamillo’s children’s books (author of The Beatryce Prophecy) to youthful memories of Paris; the cherished life gifts given by her three fathers to the unexpected influence of Charles Schultz’s Snoopy; the expansive vision of Eudora Welty to the importance of knitting, Patchett connects life and art as she illuminates what matters most. Infused with the author’s grace, wit, and warmth, the pieces in These Precious Days resonate deep in the soul, leaving an indelible mark—and demonstrate why Ann Patchett is one of the most celebrated writers of our time.
