Download or read book Ten Traps of Television written by Francie Taylor and published by Sword of the Lord Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Though the television has the potentiality to be a very good thing, it has been quite a detriment to mankind with what is usually being pumped through it. Here, Francie Taylor has identified ten snares that can trap a person into being a "vessel of ... dishonor" to our Lord, and all ten traps have to do with the misuse of television watching."--Publisher description.
Download or read book The Tolerance Trap written by Suzanna Danuta Walters and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Glee to gay marriage, from lesbian senators to out gay Marines, we have undoubtedly experienced a seismic shift in attitudes about gays in American politics and culture. Our reigning national story is that a new era of rainbow acceptance is at hand. But dig a bit deeper, and this seemingly brave new gay world is disappointing. For all of the undeniable changes, author Walters argues, the plea for tolerance has sabotaged the full integration of gays into American life. Same-sex marriage is unrecognized and unpopular in the vast majority of states, hate crimes proliferate, and even in the much vaunted "gay friendly" world of Hollywood and celebrity culture, precious few stars are openly gay. She maintains that we are not "almost there," but on the contrary have settled for a watered-down goal of tolerance rather than a robust claim to full civil rights. After all, one "tolerates" unpleasant realities: medicine with strong side effects, a long commute, an annoying relative. Tolerance is not the end goal, but a dead end;.--From publisher description.
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Download or read book The Happiness Trap written by Russ Harris and published by Exisle Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to ACT: the revolutionary mindfulness-based program for reducing stress, overcoming fear, and finding fulfilment – now updated. International bestseller, 'The Happiness Trap', has been published in over thirty countries and twenty-two languages. NOW UPDATED. Popular ideas about happiness are misleading, inaccurate, and are directly contributing to our current epidemic of stress, anxiety and depression. And unfortunately, popular psychological approaches are making it even worse! In this easy-to-read, practical and empowering self-help book, Dr Russ Harries, reveals how millions of people are unwittingly caught in the 'The Happiness Trap', where the more they strive for happiness the more they suffer in the long term. He then provides an effective means to escape through the insights and techniques of ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), a groundbreaking new approach based on mindfulness skills. By clarifying your values and developing mindfulness (a technique for living fully in the present moment), ACT helps you escape the happiness trap and find true satisfaction in life. Mindfulness skills are easy to learn and will rapidly and effectively help you to reduce stress, enhance performance, manage emotions, improve health, increase vitality, and generally change your life for the better. The book provides scientifically proven techniques to: reduce stress and worry; rise above fear, doubt and insecurity; handle painful thoughts and feelings far more effectively; break self-defeating habits; improve performance and find fulfilment in your work; build more satisfying relationships; and, create a rich, full and meaningful life.
Download or read book KTLA s News at 10 written by Stan Chambers and published by Behler Publications. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles news icon, Stan Chambers, steps out from behind the mic to talk about influential stories.
Download or read book Avoidingtheterroristtrap whyrespectforhumanrightsisthekeytodefeatingterrorism written by Parker Thomas David and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 150 years, Nationalist, Populist, Marxist and Islamist terrorists have all been remarkably consistent and explicit about their aims: Provoke the State into over-reacting to the threat they pose, then take advantage of the divisions in society that result. Faced with a major terrorist threat, States seem to reach instinctively for the most coercive tools in their arsenal and, in doing so, risk exacerbating the situation. This policy response seems to be driven in equal parts by a lack of understanding of the true nature of the threat, an exaggerated faith in the use of force, and a lack of faith that democratic values are sufficiently flexible to allow for an effective counter-terrorism response. Drawing on a wealth of data from both historical and contemporary sources, Avoiding the Terrorist Trap addresses common misconceptions underpinning flawed counter-terrorist policies, identifies the core strategies that guide terrorist operations, consolidates the latest research on the underlying drivers of terrorist violence, and demonstrates how a comprehensive and coherent counter-terrorism strategy grounded in respect for human rights and the rule of law is the only truly effective approach to defeating terrorism.
Download or read book The Content Trap written by Bharat Anand and published by Random House Group. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “My favorite book of the year.”—Doug McMillon, CEO, Wal-Mart Stores Harvard Business School Professor of Strategy Bharat Anand presents an incisive new approach to digital transformation that favors fostering connectivity over focusing exclusively on content. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BLOOMBERG Companies everywhere face two major challenges today: getting noticed and getting paid. To confront these obstacles, Bharat Anand examines a range of businesses around the world, from The New York Times to The Economist, from Chinese Internet giant Tencent to Scandinavian digital trailblazer Schibsted, and from talent management to the future of education. Drawing on these stories and on the latest research in economics, strategy, and marketing, this refreshingly engaging book reveals important lessons, smashes celebrated myths, and reorients strategy. Success for flourishing companies comes not from making the best content but from recognizing how content enables customers’ connectivity; it comes not from protecting the value of content at all costs but from unearthing related opportunities close by; and it comes not from mimicking competitors’ best practices but from seeing choices as part of a connected whole. Digital change means that everyone today can reach and interact with others directly: We are all in the content business. But that comes with risks that Bharat Anand teaches us how to recognize and navigate. Filled with conversations with key players and in-depth dispatches from the front lines of digital change, The Content Trap is an essential new playbook for navigating the turbulent waters in which we find ourselves. Praise for The Content Trap “A masterful and thought-provoking book that has reshaped my understanding of content in the digital landscape.”—Ariel Emanuel, co-CEO, WME | IMG “The Content Trap is a book filled with stories of businesses, from music companies to magazine publishers, that missed connections and could never escape the narrow views that had brought them past success. But it is also filled with stories of those who made strategic choices to strengthen the links between content and returns in their new master plans. . . . The book is a call to clear thinking and reassessing why things are the way they are.”—The Wall Street Journal
Download or read book Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent Office written by United States. Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 1360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Representations for Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms written by Franz Rothlauf and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-03-14 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the field of genetic and evolutionary algorithms (GEAs), a large amount of theory and empirical study has been focused on operators and test problems, while problem representation has often been taken as given. This book breaks with this tradition and provides a comprehensive overview on the influence of problem representations on GEA performance. The book summarizes existing knowledge regarding problem representations and describes how basic properties of representations, such as redundancy, scaling, or locality, influence the performance of GEAs and other heuristic optimization methods. Using the developed theory, representations can be analyzed and designed in a theory-guided matter. The theoretical concepts are used for solving integer optimization problems and network design problems more efficiently. The book is written in an easy-readable style and is intended for researchers, practitioners, and students who want to learn about representations. This second edition extends the analysis of the basic properties of representations and introduces a new chapter on the analysis of direct representations.
Download or read book The Terrorist Trap written by Jeffrey D. Simon and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2001-12-07 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book that traces the government response to terrorism from the days of Thomas Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates to George W. Bush and September 11th. The bombings of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and of the World Trade Center in New York City have joined a long history of terrorists acts against the United States. In this newly updated edition of his book, Jeffrey Simon reaches back to the founding days of the Republic to tell a story that is both instructive and alarming. Simon uncovers the dynamics of a deadly conflict that affects all Americans. His in-depth interviews with terrorists and their victims, with reporters, government officials, and others bring to life a tale of presidents and terrorists, media and society, all entangled in a drama of international violence. The Terrorist Trap explores the psychological, political, and social elements that make terrorism unlike any other conflict. With the end of the Cold War and the defeat of Saddam Hussein’s army in the Gulf War, many believed that the threat of terrorism had been significantly reduced. But Simon shows how terrorism grows out of political, economic, and social grievances that can never be fully resolved, as events in Israel and elsewhere continue to demonstrate. Living with terrorism will be an inescapable part of life in the twenty-first century. Simon calls on officials to move away from the useless rhetoric of defeating terrorism and to focus instead on achievable goals in combating this global problem. “A solid, commonsense look at a phenomenon capable of producing the strongest emotions.” —Booklist
Download or read book Star Trap written by Simon Brett and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2011-12-12 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Charles Paris: a washed-up actor with a taste for wine, women . . . and solving crimes! A binge-worthy cozy mystery series from the original king of British cozy crime, internationally best-selling, award-winning author Simon Brett, OBE. For fans of Richard Osman - but with added bite! "Like a little malice in your mysteries? Some cynicism in your cosies? Simon Brett is happy to oblige" THE NEW YORK TIMES "Few crime writers are as enchantingly gifted" THE SUNDAY TIMES "One of British crime's most assured craftsmen . . . Perfect entertainment" THE GUARDIAN "A new Simon Brett is an event for mystery fans" P.D. JAMES "Murder most enjoyable" COLIN DEXTER _______________________ One middle-aged British actor, with an accidental reputation as a sleuth One West End theatre role on offer . . . And one enormous catch Welcome to the STAR TRAP Middle-aged actor Charles Paris is delighted when wily solicitor and old friend Gerald Venables offers him a job: a role in a brand-new West End musical. There's just one catch - and it's a big one. It's not Charles' acting skills that have won him the coveted part, but his growing reputation as a sleuth. Gerald represents one of Lumpkin!'s key investors, and a strange series of backstage mishaps have left him fearing someone's out to sabotage the show. With an uncharitable letter from the tax man burning a hole in his pocket, Charles reluctantly agrees to take on the undercover role. Besides, all he has to do is keep his eyes open - how dangerous can it be? Soon, Charles is embedded in the cast, and quickly discovers that the show's star - hit TV actor Christopher Milton - is making himself less than popular with his prima-donna behaviour. But signs of sabotage there are none - until, that is, the day of the dress rehearsal . . . Fans of Agatha Christie, The Thursday Murder Club, Anthony Horowitz, Alexander McCall Smith, M.C. Beaton and Faith Martin will love this hilarious cozy traditional mystery series featuring one of the funniest antiheroes in crime fiction. Written over a fifty-year-period, it perfectly captures life and contemporary attitudes in 1970s London - and beyond! READERS ADORE CHARLES PARIS: "Brett's affectionately satirical sense of the ever-changing theatrical milieu is quite simply the best in the business" Kirkus Reviews "Highly recommended" Library Journal "Clever, sardonic wit" Mystery*File "Visual and amusing, the Charles Parish books are great fun . . . Recommended" Norma, 5* GoodReads review "Held my interest from start to finish" Randee, 5* GoodReads review "One of his [Brett's] best theater-inspired detective novels" Mihran, 5* GoodReads review "Reading Brett is like eating comfort food; it makes you feel good and forget your problems. It's fast-paced, is funny, full of inside theater dope, and it's fun watching our anti-hero screw up" John, 5* Amazon review THE CHARLES PARIS MYSTERIES, IN ORDER: 1. Cast in Order of Disappearance 2. So Much Blood 3. Star Trap 4. An Amateur Corpse 5. A Comedian Dies 6. The Dead Side of the Mike 7. Situation Tragedy 8. Murder Unprompted 9. Murder in the Title 10. Not Dead, Only Resting 11. Dead Giveaway 12. What Bloody Man is That 13. A Series of Murders 14. Corporate Bodies 15. A Reconstructed Corpse 16. Sicken and So Die 17. Dead Room Farce 18. A Decent Interval 19. The Cinderella Killer 20. A Deadly Habit
Download or read book CEO s Marriage Trap So Sweet written by Mei LiDePiNang and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a moment of rapture, she climbed onto the handsome Xu Family's second young master who was as rich as a nation. What a nice thing to do! Just as he was about to slip away, he found out that he was actually his stepsister's fiancé? Great! Sooner or later, he would have to pay them back! In revenge for his stepmother, she ran back with a face full of shame, plotting to ruin his marriage ... Join Collection
Download or read book Radio TV News written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some issues, Aug. 1943-Apr. 1954, are called Radio-electronic engineering ed. (called in 1943 Radionics ed.) which include a separately paged section: Radio-electronic engineering (varies) v. 1, no. 2-v. 22, no. 7 (issued separately Aug. 1954-May 1955).
Download or read book The Athletic Trap written by Howard L. Nixon II and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The commercial model of college sports entangles presidents, boards, and their institutions in a complex web of dysfunctional commitments. The unrivaled amount of cash poured into the college athletic system has made sports programs breeding grounds for corruption while diverting crucial resources from the academic mission of universities. Like money in Washington politics, the influence bought by a complex set of self-interested actors seriously undermines movement toward reform while trapping universities in a cycle of escalating competition. Longtime sport sociologist Howard L. Nixon II approaches the issue from the perspective of college presidents—how they are seduced by prestige or pressured by economics into building programs that move schools toward a commercial model of athletics. Nixon situates his analysis in the context of what he calls “the intercollegiate golden triangle,” a powerful social network of athletic, media, and private corporate commercial interests. This network lures presidents and other university leaders into an athletic arms race with promises of institutional enhancements, increased enrollments, better student morale, improved alumni loyalty, more financial contributions, and higher prestige. These promises can cloud the judgment of college presidents and governing boards, entangling them in an athletic trap that restricts their influence. Unable to control spending, inequalities, and deviance within commercialized athletic programs, universities are ensnared in financial, political, and social obligations that are difficult to sustain—or escape. Nixon clarifies the structure of this trap, describes how higher education institutions fall into it, and explores what it means for institutions and presidents caught in it. This timely analysis also has relevance to the debates about the role of the NCAA and ongoing reform efforts in college sports. The Athletic Trap will be of interest to university presidents, board members, and administrators, sport sociologists concerned with the balance of power between academics and athletics, and anyone else with a serious interest in college sports and its future.
Download or read book The Diet Trap Solution written by Judith S. Beck and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2015-05-04 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Beck Diet Solution. Most diet programmes work at first. We lose a few pounds in a few weeks, but then life happens and the bad habits and the weight return. In this invaluable book, Judith Beck PhD offers the solution to break free from these common diet traps and keep the weight off for life. Judith Beck explains that when it comes to losing weight, it's not just about what we eat – it's also about how we think. To consistently eat differently, we must learn to think differently. Diets fail us because they don't offer effective strategies for overcoming the common traps – emotional eating, social pressure, dining out – that can derail us. Now, she and her daughter, Deborah Beck Busis, share the techniques they have successfully used with thousands of clients, revealing exactly how to overcome the thoughts and behaviours that have been holding you back. With The Diet Trap Solution, readers on any diet can learn to identify their specific diet traps, prepare for their personal triggers and create action plans to strengthen their 'resistance muscle' – making losing weight easy, sustainable and enjoyable.
Download or read book Professional Sportsman s Expense Log Book written by James Russell and published by James Russell Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it not time you become a professional sportsman? Perhaps you never thought it possible, but today is the very day you do! It had to happen sooner or later. If not now, when? Never? It all begins the moment you use book. Here is how you benefit. You will take full tax deductions for the purchase of your sporting equipment, lessons, coaching, tournament entry fees, lodging, fuel, (including new guns, ammo, bowling, golf equipment and supplies), clothing, vehicle repairs, tires and oil changes, furniture, interest payments and much more! You will save thousands of dollars each and every year. When you begin your professional sportsman adventure you are "in business" and it will be like getting a massive pay raise! And if you are retired? You qualify. Everyone qualifies! There are no age limits, young or old benefit. It's so easy and profitable you'll wonder why you didn't do it sooner! And what is amazing there is literally little more you need to learn. No fees to pay, no tricks, no gimmicks, no business licenses, no accountant or attorney needed. The book explains what you need to know and you can begin your tax deductions the moment you get the book into your hands. Today you step into the professional realm even if you are still in training striving to become professional. You don't need to be a recognized professional sportsman to take advantage of these wonderful deductions. Imagine all the brand new high-grade sporting equipment including practice and competitive entry fees, and the sporting supplies you can buy and receive huge tax rebate checks at year's end! Amazing, but true. Buy this book, which is also tax deductible, and get started right away! This book makes you money and pays for itself a thousand times over! 260 p.p. 6x9 size perfect bound book.
Download or read book The Lost Gospel of James written by James Russell and published by James Russell Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-24 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lost Gospel of James - a New Testament of Jesus of Galilee. The second series of the novel, The Lost Gospel of John. Come join this fabulous miracle-working Jesus and his trusted and admired Saint James with the entertaining, funny and remarkably bumbling dysfunctional apostles. You'll experience strange and powerful creatures, mysterious paths and twisted lands taking you to places you never knew existed. Enjoy the infamous agonizing filthy slums of heaven, the wicked joys of hell and discover the awful and true horror that there will be no escape for you, ever! You should read the Lost Gospel of John first before reading this second book in the series. Isn't it time you discover The Lost Gospels?
