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Book Our Community at Winchester

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  • Author : Joan Cavanagh
  • Publisher : OctoberWorks
  • Release : 2020-09-30
  • ISBN : 9781732180154
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book Our Community at Winchester written by Joan Cavanagh and published by OctoberWorks. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Healing at Work

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  • Author : Martha I. Finney
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-03-25
  • ISBN : 9781951744731
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Healing at Work written by Martha I. Finney and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it possible growing up in a dysfunctional home may be hurting your career in countless hidden ways? Rise Above Your Past and Build the Career You Deserve! Did you grow up in a dysfunctional or chaotic childhood that made you feel uncertain, unloved, unsafe, anxious, never good enough or something else negative about yourself? Are you shocked to discover that you still experience these feelings in your career? Perhaps you are unaware to how much your difficult childhood can keep you from what you most desire professionally. Are limiting beliefs and outdated behavior patterns getting in the way of the career success that you deserve? Do the stress and worry you experience at work rob you of your joy and self-acceptance? Has your career stalled, and you don't know why? Maybe you are just exhausted from being drained at work. You don't have to be consciously or unconsciously imprisoned by your past. No matter how bad it was. And you're not alone! Healing at Work: A Guide to Using Career Conflicts to Overcome Your Past and Build the Future You Deserve, by career experts Susan Schmitt Winchester and Martha I. Finney, gives you the skills and insights you need to thrive in your career and in life. Building on the principles that "damaged is not doomed" and "the rest of your life is yours," Winchester and Finney incorporate world-class career advice, principles of positive psychology and the latest research in neuroplasticity to help you see how you can use your career and workplace experiences to build the life of happiness and success that you desire. In Healing at Work, you'll learn how to create the life and career that you deserve, based on discovering deeper levels of self-acceptance, joy, optimism, and meaning.

Book Licoricia of Winchester

Download or read book Licoricia of Winchester written by Suzanne Bartlet and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: among medieval writers. Was jealousy of the family's power the reason that Licoricia was so brutally killed? Was Benedict's involvement in local politics and shady deals to blame for the resentment that built up around him? Or was Licoricia's death merely a symptom of the increasing tensions between Christians and Jews in medieval England in the run-up to the Expulsion of the latter from the kingdom in 1290?" "The micro-history of Licoricia and her family sheds new light on the Jewish community in medieval Winchester, itself strangely neglected by scholars. It reveals to the reader something of the social life of the Jewish enclave in this period, and demonstrates the extensive communication networks between Jewish communities, as well as the tribulations they suffered of regular, punitive taxation and arbitrary imprisonments. By using Licoricia's family as an example of the impact such measures had, Bartlet demonstrates the gradual deterioration in the conditions of even the --

Book The Men Who United the States

Download or read book The Men Who United the States written by Simon Winchester and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Simon Winchester never disappoints, and The Men Who United the States is a lively and surprising account of how this sprawling piece of geography became a nation. This is America from the ground up. Inspiring and engaging.” —Tom Brokaw Simon Winchester, acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Atlantic and The Professor and the Madman, delivers his first book about America: a fascinating popular history that illuminates the men who toiled fearlessly to discover, connect, and bond the citizenry and geography of the U.S.A. from its beginnings. How did America become “one nation, indivisible”? What unified a growing number of disparate states into the modern country we recognize today? To answer these questions, Winchester follows in the footsteps of America’s most essential explorers, thinkers, and innovators, such as Lewis and Clark and the leaders of the Great Surveys; the builders of the first transcontinental telegraph and the powerful civil engineer behind the Interstate Highway System. He treks vast swaths of territory, from Pittsburgh to Portland, Rochester to San Francisco, Seattle to Anchorage, introducing the fascinating people who played a pivotal role in creating today’s United States. Throughout, he ponders whether the historic work of uniting the States has succeeded, and to what degree. Featuring 32 illustrations throughout the text, The Men Who United the States is a fresh look at the way in which the most powerful nation on earth came together.

Book The Perfectionists

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  • Author : Simon Winchester
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2018-05-08
  • ISBN : 0062652575
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book The Perfectionists written by Simon Winchester and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Another gem from one of the world’s justly celebrated historians specializing in unusual and always fascinating subjects and people.” — Booklist (starred review) The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement—precision—in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future. The rise of manufacturing could not have happened without an attention to precision. At the dawn of the Industrial Revolution in eighteenth-century England, standards of measurement were established, giving way to the development of machine tools—machines that make machines. Eventually, the application of precision tools and methods resulted in the creation and mass production of items from guns and glass to mirrors, lenses, and cameras—and eventually gave way to further breakthroughs, including gene splicing, microchips, and the Hadron Collider. Simon Winchester takes us back to origins of the Industrial Age, to England where he introduces the scientific minds that helped usher in modern production: John Wilkinson, Henry Maudslay, Joseph Bramah, Jesse Ramsden, and Joseph Whitworth. It was Thomas Jefferson who later exported their discoveries to the fledgling United States, setting the nation on its course to become a manufacturing titan. Winchester moves forward through time, to today’s cutting-edge developments occurring around the world, from America to Western Europe to Asia. As he introduces the minds and methods that have changed the modern world, Winchester explores fundamental questions. Why is precision important? What are the different tools we use to measure it? Who has invented and perfected it? Has the pursuit of the ultra-precise in so many facets of human life blinded us to other things of equal value, such as an appreciation for the age-old traditions of craftsmanship, art, and high culture? Are we missing something that reflects the world as it is, rather than the world as we think we would wish it to be? And can the precise and the natural co-exist in society?

Book The Winchester Book

Download or read book The Winchester Book written by George Madis and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Incarnations

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  • Author : Susan Barker
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2015-08-18
  • ISBN : 1501106783
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book The Incarnations written by Susan Barker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published in Great Britain in 2014 by Doubleday."

Book Land  How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

Download or read book Land How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World written by Simon Winchester and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for it and gave it back.

Book Winchester  Connecticut  A History from Founding to Flood

Download or read book Winchester Connecticut A History from Founding to Flood written by Virginia Shultz-Charette and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winchester and Winsted once blossomed with commerce. From cheeses that were sold to the most exclusive restaurants in major cities to tourism that proclaimed "the lake's the thing," the towns thrived. The production of clocks, clothing, knives and gold- and silver-plated coffin trimmings helped establish the region's prominence. Famous names like Rockwell, Beardsley, Boyd, Gilbert and Strong highlight the town's history, not only due to their business acumen but also because of their philanthropy. Colonel Samuel B. Horne, who earned the Medal of Honor in the Civil War, along with noteworthy journalists and artists all made their home here. And then, in 1955, disaster struck. Join local historian and author Virginia Shultz-Charette as she recounts the town's development and how the great flood changed everything.

Book The Winchester

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  • Author : Laura Trevelyan
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2016-09-20
  • ISBN : 0300223382
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book The Winchester written by Laura Trevelyan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating history of the family behind the popular firearm that changed America and the world Arguably the world's most famous firearm, the Winchester Repeating Rifle was sought after by a cast of characters ranging from the settlers of the American West to the Ottoman Empire's Army. Laura Trevelyan, a descendant of the Winchester family, offers an engrossing personal history of the colorful New England clan responsible for the creation and manufacture of the "Gun that Won the West." Trevelyan chronicles the rise and fortunes of a great American arms dynasty, from Oliver Winchester's involvement with the Volcanic Arms Company in 1855 through the turbulent decades of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She explores the evolution of an iconic, paradigm-changing weapon that has become a part of American culture; a longtime favorite of collectors and gun enthusiasts that has been celebrated in fiction, glorified in Hollywood, and applauded in endorsements from the likes of Annie Oakley, Theodore Roosevelt, Ernest Hemingway, and Native American tribesmen who called it "the spirit gun."

Book Deer Hunting with Jesus

Download or read book Deer Hunting with Jesus written by Joe Bageant and published by Crown. This book was released on 2008-06-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years before Hillbilly Elegy and White Trash, a raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor -- and why they have learned to hate liberalism. What it adds up to, he asserts, is an unacknowledged class war. By turns tender, incendiary, and seriously funny, this book is a call to arms for fellow progressives with little real understanding of "the great beery, NASCAR-loving, church-going, gun-owning America that has never set foot in a Starbucks." Deer Hunting with Jesus is Joe Bageant’s report on what he learned when he moved back to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia. Like countless American small towns, it is fast becoming the bedrock of a permanent underclass. Two in five of the people in his old neighborhood do not have high school diplomas or health care. Alcohol, overeating, and Jesus are the preferred avenues of escape. He writes of: • His childhood friends who work at factory jobs that are constantly on the verge of being outsourced • The mortgage and credit card rackets that saddle the working poor with debt • The ubiquitous gun culture—and why the left doesn’ t get it • Scots Irish culture and how it played out in the young life of Lynddie England

Book Halsey Street

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  • Author : Naima Coster
  • Publisher : Platinum Spotlight Series
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 9781683248439
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Halsey Street written by Naima Coster and published by Platinum Spotlight Series. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After her mother, Mirella, abandoned her family to reclaim her roots in the Dominican Republic, Penelope Grand moved back to Brooklyn to keep an eye on her ailing father. When she receives a postcard from Mirella seeking reconciliation, old wounds are reopened, secrets revealed, and a journey across an ocean of sacrifice and self-discovery begins"--

Book Prison Diary  Argentina

Download or read book Prison Diary Argentina written by Simon Winchester and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Resilience for Today

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  • Author : Edith H. Grotberg
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2003-10-30
  • ISBN : 0313057516
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Resilience for Today written by Edith H. Grotberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-10-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increased bombardment of information on the world's dangers, from imminent disasters to terror and wars reported in the media, make us particularly vulnerable to stress and feelings of helplessness. This volume is unique in describing how to promote resilience in different groups, under different circumstances, and dealing with different adversities. Resilience is the human capacity to deal with stress, adversities, and threats—and somehow emerge stronger. Today, the increased bombardment of information on the world's dangers, from imminent disasters to terror and wars reported in the media, make us particularly vulnerable to stress and feelings of helplessness. This volume is unique in describing how to promote resilience in different groups, under different circumstances, and dealing with different adversities. The contributors—psychologists, medical doctors, teachers and physical therapists among them—show how we can learn to draw on supports, build inner strength, and acquire interpersonal and problem-solving skills to deal with adversity. This volume will be useful for parents, service providers, researchers, policymakers, curriculum writers, and program developers. Research findings are applied to actions and policies so that the knowledge can be used in everyday life. Topics addressed include a basic understanding of resilience, resilience in families, the role of schools in resilience, and resilience for those needing health care. The text includes a discussion of the concern that too many children are protected from adversity, are unprepared to face future stressors, and become overly dependent upon others.

Book History of Douglas School Winchester  Virginia

Download or read book History of Douglas School Winchester Virginia written by Judy Humbert and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Douglas School in Winchester, Virginia. Education of the black population in Winchester, Virginia

Book The Wykehamist

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1866
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book The Wykehamist written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Publications of the Catholic Record Society

Download or read book Publications of the Catholic Record Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 5-7, 9, 11-12, 15, 17-24, 26-41, 48-52 include Report of the Society 1907-1925, 1927-1957/58.