Author : Dale R. Congdon
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,76 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Family History
ISBN :
Largely the life history of John Leland (1754-1841), a noted Baptist minister of the early nineteenth century with some of his ancestry and several of his descendants. Includes Case, Goodwin, Jackson, Wilder, and other related families.
Author : Leland Jones
Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 35,71 MB
Release : 2017-06-19
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1543740901
A Journey with Purpose This is a guide when youre unsure of where and how to start your journey to success. A Journey with Purpose is intended to provide direction and value to hardworking, driven people. This book is for anyone who may feel they have more to contribute to the world but lack direction on where and how to start and have limiting beliefs or setbacks that are keeping them from reaching their true potential. This book provides simple and easy-to-accomplish tips and ideas that will guide anyone in identifying and pursuing their true purpose. The values this book will provide in your life are the following: Clear tips that show you how to identify your purpose in life Ideas to guide you when youre faced with challenges experienced by many people and starting something new Keys to facing failure, obstacles, and inaccurate beliefs shared by others on the journey to success Strategies that can be used now to change yourself to be more successful tomorrow New sense of direction, understanding of yourself, and meaning in your life Ability to find what your contribution to making the world a better place is Clear understanding of where to start and how to keep the ball rolling once you have
Author : Leland Melvin
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,33 MB
Release : 2017-05-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0062496778
In this revelatory and moving memoir, a former NASA astronaut and NFL wide receiver shares his personal journey from the gridiron to the stars, examining the intersecting roles of community, perseverance and grace that align to create the opportunities for success. Leland Melvin is the only person in human history to catch a pass in the National Football League and in space. Though his path to the heavens was riddled with setbacks and injury, Leland persevered to reach the stars. While training with NASA, Melvin suffered a severe injury that left him deaf. Leland was relegated to earthbound assignments, but chose to remain and support his astronaut family. His loyalty paid off. Recovering partial hearing, he earned his eligibility for space travel. He served as mission specialist for two flights aboard the shuttle Atlantis, working on the International Space Station. In this uplifting memoir, the former NASA astronaut and professional athlete offers an examination of the intersecting role of community, determination, and grace that align to shape our opportunities and outcomes. Chasing Space is not the story of one man, but the story of many men, women, scientists, and mentors who helped him defy the odds and live out an uncommon destiny. As a chemist, athlete, engineer and space traveler, Leland’s life story is a study in the science of achievement. His personal insights illuminate how grit and grace, are the keys to overcoming adversity and rising to success.
Author : John Leland
Publisher : Sarah Crichton Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 38,50 MB
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0374717052
A New York Times Bestseller! An extraordinary look at what it means to grow old and a heartening guide to well-being, Happiness Is a Choice You Make weaves together the stories and wisdom of six New Yorkers who number among the “oldest old”— those eighty-five and up. In 2015, when the award-winning journalist John Leland set out on behalf of The New York Times to meet members of America’s fastest-growing age group, he anticipated learning of challenges, of loneliness, and of the deterioration of body, mind, and quality of life. But the elders he met took him in an entirely different direction. Despite disparate backgrounds and circumstances, they each lived with a surprising lightness and contentment. The reality Leland encountered upended contemporary notions of aging, revealing the late stages of life as unexpectedly rich and the elderly as incomparably wise. Happiness Is a Choice You Make is an enduring collection of lessons that emphasizes, above all, the extraordinary influence we wield over the quality of our lives. With humility, heart, and wit, Leland has crafted a sophisticated and necessary reflection on how to “live better”—informed by those who have mastered the art.
Author : Leland Jones
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 26,3 MB
Release : 2018-07-29
Category :
ISBN : 9781724543714
A Journey with Purpose A Guide to Overcoming & Conquering Failure This book was created to share the stories and experiences of the life of author Leland Jones and how was able to share the lessons he had learned to grow and succeed in overcoming and conquering his failures for your benefit. This book will provide tips on how to: - Look at the pain of failure - Overcome the pain of failure - Win after failure - Not make the same mistakes again - Find your purpose - Use your purpose as a tool to overcome failure - Continue your success after overcoming and conquering failure Failure is a word that carries a lot of negative connotation. Just like it hurts when everything is going as normal then you stub your toe and want to shout in anger at the pain, failure works the same way. You might be cruising along in your journey, and you hit a roadblock, a set back, or just a flat out rejection. Instantly it hurts. That is a normal feeling. Everyone at some point in their life has faced failure, and almost all of those times I am sure that it hurt. The good news about failure is that it is not a static place. Just because you fail does not mean YOU are a failure. It just means you FACED a failure. What that means is that it allows for you a learning opportunity. A chance to try again, and do it better, bigger, and more efficiently. Without failure, there would be no success. They go hand in hand and that is what makes it so rewarding when you do see success. I always tell the people I mentor that one day of success is built upon one thousand days of failure. That is why failure is so vital to your success. A "fail" is just a short word that means "success building block." Without it, there is no grounds for success. It is just like when you first learned to walk. Whether you knew it or not, every time you fell over, you got back up and tried again. Each time you stood back up, you were stronger, had more knowledge about what not to do, and eventually were able to walk on your own. This book will explore all three of these concepts from the pain of failure, how to use failure as a learning opportunity, and finally how you can start laying the foundation of your purpose with the building blocks of failure.
Author : Leland McKee
Publisher : Bookbaby
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 15,75 MB
Release : 2021-07-23
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781098384913
A photo journey for the American People through the eyes of the camera.
Author : John Leland
Publisher :
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 10,64 MB
Release : 1909
Category : England
ISBN :
Author : Julie Schumacher
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 18,3 MB
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345807332
“Like Richard Russo’s Straight Man this book has a lot to say about the humanities in American colleges and universities…. Very funny and also moving.” —Tom Perrotta, New York Post A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR and Boston Globe Finally a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary." Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts college in the midwest. His department is facing draconian cuts and squalid quarters, while one floor above them the Economics Department is getting lavishly remodeled offices. His once-promising writing career is in the doldrums, as is his romantic life, in part as the result of his unwise use of his private affairs for his novels. His star (he thinks) student can't catch a break with his brilliant (he thinks) work Accountant in a Bordello, based on Melville's Bartleby. In short, his life is a tale of woe, and the vehicle this droll and inventive novel uses to tell that tale is a series of hilarious letters of recommendation that Fitger is endlessly called upon by his students and colleagues to produce, each one of which is a small masterpiece of high dudgeon, low spirits, and passive-aggressive strategies. We recommend Dear Committee Members to you in the strongest possible terms. Don’t miss Julie Schumacher's new novel, The English Experience, coming soon.
Author : Leland Ryken
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 24,73 MB
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1433564300
A Christian Perspective on the Joys of Reading Reading has become a lost art. With smartphones offering us endless information with the tap of a finger, it's hard to view reading as anything less than a tedious and outdated endeavor. This is particularly problematic for Christians, as many find it difficult to read even the Bible consistently and attentively. Reading is in desperate need of recovery. Recovering the Lost Art of Reading addresses these issues by exploring the importance of reading in general as well as studying the Bible as literature, offering practical suggestions along the way. Leland Ryken and Glenda Faye Mathes inspire a new generation to overcome the notion that reading is a duty and instead discover it as a delight.
Author : Kenneth J. Doka
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,36 MB
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1476771537
In this “volume of rare sensitivity, penetrating understanding, and profound insights” (Rabbi Earl A. Grollman, author of Living When a Loved One Has Died), Dr. Kenneth Doka explores a new, compassionate way to grieve, explaining that grief is not an illness to get over but an individual and ongoing journey. There is no “one-size-fits-all” way to cope with loss. The vital bonds that we form with those we love in life continue long after death—in very different ways. Grief Is a Journey is the first book to overturn prevailing, often judgmental, ideas about grief and replace them with a hopeful, inclusive, personalized, and research-backed approach. New science and studies behind Dr. Doka’s teaching upend the dominant but incorrect view that grief proceeds by stages. Dr. Doka helps us realize that our experiences following a death are far more individual and much less predictable than the conventional “five stages” model would have us believe. Common patterns of experiencing and expressing grief still prevail, yet many other life changes accompany a primary loss. For example, the deaths of parents, even for adults, modify family patterns, change relationships, and alter old family rituals. Unique to this book, Dr. Doka also explains how to cope with disenfranchised grief—the types of loss that are not so readily recognized or supported by society. These include the death of ex-spouses, as well as non-fatal losses such as divorce, the end of a friendship, job loss, or infertility. In addition, Dr. Doka considers losses that might be stigmatized, including death by suicide or from disease or self-destructive behaviors such as smoking or alcoholism. And finally, Dr. Doka reminds us that, however painful, grief provides opportunities for growth.
