Author : Fitzhugh Mullan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,62 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Medical care
ISBN : 9780472031979
A doctor tells his own behind-the-scenes story of the making of a medical man and the disintegration of an American myth
Author : Peter Weston Wood
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 29,56 MB
Release : 2007-02
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780978968304
Does boxing teach anything besides how to club someone into submission? Can it transcend its sordid reputation and instill love, compassion and honor in America's most troubled youth? In this raw yet uplifting memoir about amateur boxing, Wood tells of his begrudging return to a world he thought he left behind. He steps back into the mud of boxing, coaching two troubled teens who dream?as he once did?of becoming Golden Gloves champions. His compelling story moves far beyond the grunt and sweat of the local gym. It explores the classrooms of a suburban high school and digs through the remains of unhappy childhoods. It's a story about how boxing is a way out and how it cleanses the soul. This book brings the subculture of amateur boxing up close and weaves a powerful story of beating demons, battling for glory and gaining redemption.
Author : Henri J. M. Nouwen
Publisher : Ave Maria Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,57 MB
Release : 2006-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1594713359
With Open Hands, Henri Nouwen's first book on spirituality and a treasured introduction to prayer, has been a perennial favorite for over thirty years because it gently encourages an open, trusting stance toward God and offers insight to the components of prayer: silence, acceptance, hope, compassion, and prophetic criticism. Provocative questions invite reflection and self-awareness, while simple and beautiful prayers provide comfort, peace, and reassurance. With more than half a million copies printed in seven languages, this spiritual classic has been reissued for a new generation with moving photography and a foreword by Sue Monk Kidd.
Author : Rhea Y. Miller
Publisher : Innisfree Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 37,15 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781880913192
Social activist Rhea Miller contrasts clenched fist establishment mentality with t'ai chi's Cloudhand stance to demonstrate the infinite possibility inherent in chaos, and shares transforming insights into the relationships among cosmic, social, and spiritual forces.
Author : Asma Shakir Khawaja
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,78 MB
Release : 2018
Category : India
ISBN : 9789699949012
Author : Kevin D. Glenn
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 24,16 MB
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1490840206
Incivility among Christians has been referred to as a cannibal culture, venomous, pandemic, and anything but Christlike. Why is it so hard for Christians to have a civil conversation anymore? We need the humility to open our hands and ask for help, the boldness to lift up our hand to incivility and say, Enough, and the confidence to hold out our hand to offer help and guidance to others. Thats hard to do with a clenched fist. Hand Over Fist provides the Christian community with tools to recognize various forms of conflict, interpret those conflicts appropriately, and engage those conflicts through a process that equips and empowers Christians to participate in civil discourse. And the solution to all of it is in the palm of your hand.
Author : Kathy Dobson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,60 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781550653236
In the Point St. Charles of the author's childhood people move for one of two reasons: their apartment is on fire, or the rent is due. Starting in 1968, eight-year-old Kathy Dobson shares her early years growing up in Point St. Charles, an industrial slum in Montreal (now in the process of gentrification). She offers a glimpse into the culture of extreme poverty, giving an insider's view into a neighbourhood then described as the "toughest in Canada." When student social workers and medical students from McGill University invade the Point, Kathy and her five sisters witness their mother transform from a defeated welfare recipient to an angry and confrontational community organizer who joins in the fight against a city that has turned a blind eye on some of its most vulnerable citizens. When her mother wins the right for Kathy and her two older sisters to attend schools in one of Montreal's richest neighbourhoods,Kathy is thrown into a foreign world with a completely different set of rules, leading to disastrous results.
Author : CrisMarie Campbell
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 20,12 MB
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Conflict management
ISBN : 9780999450123
No one likes conflict--but that doesn't mean you have to avoid it. Learn how to turn those "Oh, Sh*t! Moments," when opinions and personalities clash, into the juice that powers your team to great results or new heights. Politics. Confusion. Factions. Gossip. Turnover. If you lead a team, you may see conflict as the worst part of your job. You may see it as counterproductive, dysfunctional, and a waste of time because team members are not dealing with each other--maybe not even speaking. You may see lost opportunities, inspiration, cohesiveness, and ultimately, productivity. But what if you could see...results? That's what The Beauty of Conflict: Harnessing Your Team's Competitive Advantage is all about. Written by life and business partners CrisMarie Campbell and Susan Clarke, The Beauty of Conflict shows you how the perfect storm that occurs when vision, opinion, and passion come together can be fertile ground for creativity and innovation. By leaning in to those inevitable oh, sh*t! moments when people clash, you'll unleash the juice that powers your team's competitive advantage. You'll learn to: Utilize the potential energy of conflict Guide your team through difficult moments Bridge differences between people to boost your team's IQ Use conflict to spark innovation and team transformation Increase trust, engagement and profit Featuring true stories and practical examples drawn from the authors' 25 years of experience working with Fortune 500 and other major companies, The Beauty of Conflict will show you how to lead your team past the discomfort, embrace their differences--and leverage those oh, sh*t! moments into increased productivity and profitability.
Author : Mitch Albom
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 29,86 MB
Release : 2011-06-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1401304087
What if our beliefs were not what divided us, but what pulled us together? In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully written story of a remarkable eight-year journey between two worlds -- two men, two faiths, two communities -- that will inspire readers everywhere. Albom's first nonfiction book since Tuesdays with Morrie, Have a Little Faith begins with an unusual request: an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy. Feeling unworthy, Albom insists on understanding the man better, which throws him back into a world of faith he'd left years ago. Meanwhile, closer to his current home, Albom becomes involved with a Detroit pastor -- a reformed drug dealer and convict -- who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof. Moving between their worlds, Christian and Jewish, African-American and white, impoverished and well-to-do, Albom observes how these very different men employ faith similarly in fighting for survival: the older, suburban rabbi embracing it as death approaches; the younger, inner-city pastor relying on it to keep himself and his church afloat. As America struggles with hard times and people turn more to their beliefs, Albom and the two men of God explore issues that perplex modern man: how to endure when difficult things happen; what heaven is; intermarriage; forgiveness; doubting God; and the importance of faith in trying times. Although the texts, prayers, and histories are different, Albom begins to recognize a striking unity between the two worlds -- and indeed, between beliefs everywhere. In the end, as the rabbi nears death and a harsh winter threatens the pastor's wobbly church, Albom sadly fulfills the rabbi's last request and writes the eulogy. And he finally understands what both men had been teaching all along: the profound comfort of believing in something bigger than yourself. Have a Little Faith is a book about a life's purpose; about losing belief and finding it again; about the divine spark inside us all. It is one man's journey, but it is everyone's story. Ten percent of the profits from this book will go to charity, including The Hole In The Roof Foundation, which helps refurbish places of worship that aid the homeless.
Author : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 41,56 MB
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0593320816
From the globally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and author of We Should All Be Feminists, a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father: “With raw eloquence, Notes on Grief … captures the bewildering messiness of loss in a society that requires serenity, when you’d rather just scream. Grief is impolite ... Adichie’s words put welcome, authentic voice to this most universal of emotions, which is also one of the most universally avoided” (The Washington Post). Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's beloved father’s death in the summer of 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, and kept Adichie and her family members separated from one another, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure. Expanding on her original New Yorker piece, Adichie shares how this loss shook her to her core. She writes about being one of the millions of people grieving this year; about the familial and cultural dimensions of grief and also about the loneliness and anger that are unavoidable in it. With signature precision of language, and glittering, devastating detail on the page—and never without touches of rich, honest humor—Adichie weaves together her own experience of her father’s death with threads of his life story, from his remarkable survival during the Biafran war, through a long career as a statistics professor, into the days of the pandemic in which he’d stay connected with his children and grandchildren over video chat from the family home in Abba, Nigeria. In the compact format of We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, Adichie delivers a gem of a book—a book that fundamentally connects us to one another as it probes one of the most universal human experiences. Notes on Grief is a book for this moment—a work readers will treasure and share now more than ever—and yet will prove durable and timeless, an indispensable addition to Adichie's canon.
