Download or read book Prisms written by James Hollis and published by Chiron Publications. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prisms: Reflections on the Journey We Call Life summarizes a lifetime of observing, engaging, and exploring why we are here, in service to what, and what life asks of us. These eleven essays, all written recently, examine how we understand ourselves, and often we have to reframe that understanding, the nature and gift of comedy, the imagination, desire, as well as our encounters with narcissism, and aging. James Hollis, Ph.D., a Jungian Analyst in Washington, D.C., explores the roadblocks we encounter and our on-going challenge to live our brief journey with as much courage, insight, and resolve as we can bring to the table.
Download or read book Prisms of the People written by Hahrie Han and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grassroots organizing and collective action have always been fundamental to American democracy but have been burgeoning since the 2016 election, as people struggle to make their voices heard in this moment of societal upheaval. Unfortunately much of that action has not had the kind of impact participants might want, especially among movements representing the poor and marginalized who often have the most at stake when it comes to rights and equality. Yet, some instances of collective action have succeeded. What’s the difference between a movement that wins victories for its constituents, and one that fails? What are the factors that make collective action powerful? Prisms of the People addresses those questions and more. Using data from six movement organizations—including a coalition that organized a 104-day protest in Phoenix in 2010 and another that helped restore voting rights to the formerly incarcerated in Virginia—Hahrie Han, Elizabeth McKenna, and Michelle Oyakawa show that the power of successful movements most often is rooted in their ability to act as “prisms of the people,” turning participation into political power just as prisms transform white light into rainbows. Understanding the organizational design choices that shape the people, their leaders, and their strategies can help us understand how grassroots groups achieve their goals. Linking strong scholarship to a deep understanding of the needs and outlook of activists, Prisms of the People is the perfect book for our moment—for understanding what’s happening and propelling it forward.
Download or read book Prism written by David K and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this refreshingly relatable memoir, David K. humanizes the experience of life with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. His many poignant recollections act as a prism, making the invisible visible, and demystifying the reality of having this neuromuscular disease. Among his many experiences: Being a "normal" college student: living away from home, staying in a dorm, learning independence, partying Confronting his early mortality at the age of 13, and being entirely unprepared to deal with it Kissing a girl for the first time at age 19, and realizing that women could indeed be interested in someone with a severe disability Learning he needed a ventilator the hard way: nearly suffocating when out with friends, and rushing home in a panic David does not sugarcoat anything, nor does he spout a lot of empty inspirational rhetoric. All he does is peel back the curtain and show what it's really like to live with a disability.
Download or read book The Black Prism written by Brent Weeks and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2010-08-25 with total page 715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where magic is tightly controlled, the most powerful man in history must choose between his kingdom and his son in the first book in the epic NYT bestselling Lightbringer series. Guile is the Prism. He is high priest and emperor, a man whose power, wit, and charm are all that preserves a tenuous peace. Yet Prisms never last, and Guile knows exactly how long he has left to live. When Guile discovers he has a son, born in a far kingdom after the war that put him in power, he must decide how much he's willing to pay to protect a secret that could tear his world apart. If you loved the action and adventure of the Night Angel trilogy, you will devour this incredible epic fantasy series by Brent Weeks.
Download or read book Prisms for a Christ life written by David L. Fleming and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief reflections for deepening one's thought and prayer about some basic issues of the Christian life.
Download or read book The Right Road written by Gwen Wagstrom Halaas and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many clergy are in startlingly bad health. Not only do they regularly report depression, stress, and serious family and financial problems, they also exhibit higher than normal incidences of obesity, high cholesterol levels, inactivity, high blood pressure, and heart disease. How effective can professionals in ministry be with such debilities and vulnerabilities? Are clergy too busy helping others to take care of themselves? Gwen Halaas's caring and savvy book addresses clergy health directly: clergy have a spiritual as well as physical need to care for themselves, to live to the fullest, to ensure that they enjoy the life and gifts God gave them. Building her brief, practical book around the wellness wheel, Halaas emphasizes not just healthy eating but a whole array of life-affirming choices for clergy. Halaas provides the tools for clergy to choose growth and well-being over burnout and decline. With this practical and upbeat volume, clergy can begin to put their own lives in perspective and ''keep [themselves] in training for a godly life'' (1 Timothy 4:7).
Download or read book Prisms written by Theodor W. Adorno and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Essays on Veblen, Huxley, Benjamin, Bach, Proust, Schoenberg, Spengler, jazz, Kafka"--Jacket subtitle.
Download or read book Breaking the Social Media Prism written by Chris Bail and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing look at how user behavior is powering deep social divisions online—and how we might yet defeat political tribalism on social media In an era of increasing social isolation, platforms like Facebook and Twitter are among the most important tools we have to understand each other. We use social media as a mirror to decipher our place in society but, as Chris Bail explains, it functions more like a prism that distorts our identities, empowers status-seeking extremists, and renders moderates all but invisible. Breaking the Social Media Prism challenges common myths about echo chambers, foreign misinformation campaigns, and radicalizing algorithms, revealing that the solution to political tribalism lies deep inside ourselves. Drawing on innovative online experiments and in-depth interviews with social media users from across the political spectrum, this book explains why stepping outside of our echo chambers can make us more polarized, not less. Bail takes you inside the minds of online extremists through vivid narratives that trace their lives on the platforms and off—detailing how they dominate public discourse at the expense of the moderate majority. Wherever you stand on the spectrum of user behavior and political opinion, he offers fresh solutions to counter political tribalism from the bottom up and the top down. He introduces new apps and bots to help readers avoid misperceptions and engage in better conversations with the other side. Finally, he explores what the virtual public square might look like if we could hit "reset" and redesign social media from scratch through a first-of-its-kind experiment on a new social media platform built for scientific research. Providing data-driven recommendations for strengthening our social media connections, Breaking the Social Media Prism shows how to combat online polarization without deleting our accounts.
Download or read book Social Prisms written by Jodi A. O′Brien and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1999-01-27 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a superb book. By presenting basic sociological topics in terms of the paradoxes they contain, O′Brien situates the discipline and its subject matter in historical and intellectual context, while using examples that are contemporary, accessible, and of interest and relevance to students. I look forward to using Social Prisms in my sociology courses and to the animated class discussions that I′m sure her book will engender. --Anita Ilta Garey, University of New Hampshire "Pine Forge Press has done it again! Social Prisms bolsters the well-deserved reputation of Pine Forge Press for publishing serious and innovative yet interesting and accessible works for undergraduate sociology courses. Students will enjoy O′Brien′s frequent references to the popular culture (sports, television, movies) which is so central to their existence outside the classroom, and be challenged by her call to embrace rather than resolve the many paradoxes of contemporary social life in America." --David Yamane, University of Notre Dame
Download or read book Redeeming Fear written by Jason C. Whitehead and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our brains are hard-wired to experience the emotion of fear. Yet "do not be afraid" is a common refrain from the Bible, used for both comfort and chastening. We have often treated fear as something to be dismissed or suppressed. Being afraid means more than simply fighting or running from a threat; to be afraid is to remember that something in life is worth living for. Whitehead helps us find the roots of hope in the soil of our fears so that we can form lives and communities of hope in the midst of a culture of fear.
Download or read book Prisms and Pyramids written by Alvarez and published by Carson-Dellosa Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now is your chance to journey to another dimension—the third dimension! Learn all about the differences between prisms and pyramids and how to classify both. This title supports Common Core Math Standards involving area, surface area, and volume.
Download or read book Life Is A Prism My Journey To Becoming A Banker written by AJAY SHASHIKANT MAHAJAN and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Life Is A Prism: My Journey to Becoming a Banker" narrates my life's story from the innocence of childhood to the pivotal moment I secured a job at the bank. This memoir captures the struggles, joys, and lessons learned along the way. From overcoming personal challenges to celebrating small victories, each chapter reveals the experiences that shaped me. Through perseverance and determination, I navigated life's twists and turns, ultimately achieving my dream of a banking career. Join me on this reflective journey, and discover how every step, no matter how small, contributed to the person I am today.
Download or read book International Encyclopedia of Human Geography written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2009-07-16 with total page 10985 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography provides an authoritative and comprehensive source of information on the discipline of human geography and its constituent, and related, subject areas. The encyclopedia includes over 1,000 detailed entries on philosophy and theory, key concepts, methods and practices, biographies of notable geographers, and geographical thought and praxis in different parts of the world. This groundbreaking project covers every field of human geography and the discipline’s relationships to other disciplines, and is global in scope, involving an international set of contributors. Given its broad, inclusive scope and unique online accessibility, it is anticipated that the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography will become the major reference work for the discipline over the coming decades. The Encyclopedia will be available in both limited edition print and online via ScienceDirect – featuring extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases, making navigation flexible and easy. For more information, pricing options and availability visit http://info.sciencedirect.com/content/books/ref_works/coming/ Available online on ScienceDirect and in limited edition print format Broad, interdisciplinary coverage across human geography: Philosophy, Methods, People, Social/Cultural, Political, Economic, Development, Health, Cartography, Urban, Historical, Regional Comprehensive and unique - the first of its kind in human geography
Download or read book Of Prisms and Estuaries written by Sharon Richardson and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author realizes that she is the same age as Osama Bin Laden. She is an ordinary person trapped in a quagmire of unsettling feelings. As the world events spin out of control, she is compelled to explore the geopolitical intersection of her life story. She waltzes through the dances of her choreography; from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific; from Canada to Saudi Arabia; from America to Europe. She merges people and places across the globe as she stumbles through the choices of her life across the context of her generation. The book is political and human; outgoing and introspective; opinionated and probing; complex and simple. The reader is challenged by a female, intuitive, and compelling voice; screaming from deep in her soul. She traces and probes the politics and the dynamics of the past fifty years across places that she has dared to tread. The telling of the tale recounts small, common, every day relationships. It follows a young girl out of Newfoundland, across Canada, through the South Pacific, to Saudi Arabia and the Red Sea coast, to America, through Europe, and back to America. She gives a voice to the stories of ordinary, middle class workers, who came of age with her, in the different places of her life story. She speaks of trust and truth. She is awed by simple things and troubled by leaders who offer answers without query. This is a book about the clash of cultures and the commonality of our humanity. A mother's voice speaks of possibility and reality. She breaks it down to the small cry of a child, to the thunderous roar of a million children. If only we dare to tread, to follow the bleeding foot steps of the children, across the whispering sands of a calm desert morning; to dare to tread, before the howling winds blow through, and the landscape shifts.
Download or read book Enneagram For Dummies written by Jeanette van Stijn and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-02-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover who you are and unlock your potential with the power of the Enneagram Fans of Myers Briggs, The Five Love Languages, and Everything DiSC are loving the Enneagram test. The Enneagram is a personality typing system that describes patterns in how people interpret the world, manage their emotions, and experience their inner lives. The Enneagram describes nine different personality types and maps each of these types on a nine-pointed diagram to illustrate how each type relates to one another. From bestselling books, popular podcasts, online courses, workshops, even around the dinner table, the Enneagram is having a moment and is likely here to stay. But what does your number represent? Are you a three, a seven, a nine, or something in between? And how do you use your Enneagram number to better relate to loved ones, friends, and colleagues? Enneagram For Dummies is here to help. Written by Enneagram expert and author Jeanette van Stijn, Enneagram For Dummies offers a step-by-step approach for using the Enneagram as a tool for personal transformation and development. You'll discover: Which Enneagram type best matches your personality Advice on overcoming challenges that your personality type often faces Interpersonal skills you should develop to succeed with people of other Enneagram personality types Ways to use your knowledge of Enneagram types to navigate the twists and turns of the workplace How the Enneagram aligns itself with many of the world's spiritual traditions Whether you're the Helper, the Investigator, the Peacemaker, or another personality type altogether, Enneagram For Dummies shows you how to overcome your inner barriers, recognize your unique gifts and strengths, and truly connect with the world around you.
Download or read book Prism of Value written by Liz Wainger and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-26 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You have a lot to offer family, friends, business colleagues, bosses and clients, but sometimes it seems they just don't appreciate what you've done or what you can do for them. In Prism of Value, Liz Wainger will help you reframe the way you communicate to make your messages clear and help others see the value you can bring into their lives. Through personal stories and real-world examples of both good and bad communication styles, she will help you see how the message you think you're sending is not necessarily the message that's being received. Prism of Value takes you step-by-step through the process of discovering your value and building a strong message to convey that value to others. You will learn about the power of clarity, how to choose words that communicate value, what makes a good message "bite," how to find your own "shtick," and ways to weave a powerful story to deposit in your personal story bank. This book will show you ways to grab the attention of those around you and ways to work successfully with those drawn into your orbit. Learn how to battle the "word mongers," those who seek to demonstrate their power by pulling out their red pen and then slow your progress. You'll see how to keep your ego in check, prevent "communication crashes," and take the extra step that will set you apart from the pack. Whether you're trying to improve communications with your spouse or kids, apply for a new job, sign that big client, or get the promotion you deserve, you'll find tips for success in Prism of Value.
Download or read book Prism Seeing the World Through the Hearts of People with Special Needs written by Kerry Boudreaux and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prism, Seeing the World Through the Hearts of People with Special Needs, is a unique perspective into what is possible when you share in the life of someone with special needs. Kerry Boudreaux was living a typical American life until the unexpected happened. He and his wife received the diagnosis that Kate, their third daughter, had Down syndrome. Kerry shares, Life Glimpses, from his experiences of rearing a daughter with special needs. What he thought and anticipated was going to unfold versus what has actually happened are two totally different tales. Whether youre searching for some perspective as a new or expectant parent, or youre a family member of a child with special needs, or perhaps you just want an enjoyable read, Prism, Seeing the World Through the Hearts of People with Special Needs, will be informative, entertaining and inspirational.
