Author : Don Brown
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 31,52 MB
Release : 2008-01-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780312377489
The story of an authentic American hero: the Native-American athlete Jim Thorpe, who grew up from a dirt-poor childhood to captivate the world at the 1912 Olympic Games.
Author : Joseph Bruchac
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,73 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781600603402
A biography of Native American athlete Jim Thorpe, focusing on how his boyhood education set the stage for his athletic achievements which gained him international fame and Olympic gold medals. Author's note details Thorpe's life after college.
Author : James Taylor Carson
Publisher : Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 27,67 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN :
Blending an engaging narrative style with broader theoretical considerations, James Taylor Carson here offers a comprehensive history of the Mississippi Choctaws, showing how they struggled to adapt to life a New World altered radically by contact while retaining their sense of identity and place.
Author : James Taylor Carson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 39,62 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803264175
Blending an engaging narrative style with broader theoretical considerations, James Taylor Carson offers the most complete history to date of the Mississippi Choctaws. Tracing the Choctaws from their origins in the Mississippian cultures of late prehistory to the early nineteenth century, Carson shows how the Choctaws struggled to adapt to life in a New World altered radically by contact while retaining their sense of identity and place. Despite changes in subsistence practices and material culture, the Choctaws made every effort to retain certain core cultural beliefs and sensibilities, a strategy they conceived of as following ?the straight bright path.? This work also makes a significant theoretical contribution to ethnohistory as Carson confronts common problems in the historical analysis of Native peoples.
Author : Arjuna Ishaya
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,64 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : 9780957205673
"Every human should get a copy of this book when they are born." - Manyu, internationally renowned mindfulness/meditation teacher This book is a guide for the human condition. It is a practical, real and honest roadmap for anyone who wants to experience life to its fullest - at 200%. 200% of life is the experience of everything. It is the whole of life: 100% inner connection, peace and stability and 100% outer enjoyment, effectiveness and fulfilment. Success without contentment and peace is half a life. Being "Zen" without action or the good things of life is only half the picture. You can have both; you deserve both. You deserve to live 200% of life. A step-by-step, "How to live fully" manual, this book gives you everything you need to cultivate the right rock solid inner foundation for the most fulfilling, and even thrilling, external existence. Light-hearted, entertaining and incredibly clear, this is the rarest of spiritual books - it doesn't take itself too seriously, yet what it delivers is profound. Do you want to live 200% of life? Here is your complete guide on how to do it. _______ Reviews for 200%: "I believe every human should get a copy of this book when they are born. It's a book that actually shows you how to LIVE. A Life manual. A practical Life guide. A How-to-Let-Go guide. A guide on How-to-be-Happy, How to find Peace, and How to Make Life Easy. Arjuna has done a truly amazing job. It is a wonderful book. I love it." - Manyu, internationally renowned meditation/mindfulness teacher "This is a lovely book. Yes, in a way, it is a 'self help' book, but it would be like saying Dan Millman's Peaceful Warrior books or the writings of Seneca are 'self help.' This book has a clear vision of teaching us the path to true happiness in body, mind, soul and spirit. It is a wonderful read and I will come back to dip in its waters many, many times." - Dan John, strength coaching legend, religious studies academic, best-selling author of eleven books including Never Let Go "200% holds so much real life relatable wisdom. I know this book will change lives because it makes living the best of lives possible for anyone with an inner desire and calling for more. If 'more' is calling you, then Arjuna's book is the answer." - Sandy C. Newbigging, coaching and meditation expert, best-selling author of seven books including Mind Detox "Arjuna strikes that just right balance between finding inner peace and living to perform. These two aspects, commonly at odds, need no longer be. Welcome to the 200% club." - Pat Flynn, fitness expert, philosopher, best-selling author of five books including How to Be Better at (Almost) Everything, top 500 health and fitness blogger "200% is written with such clarity and humour that simply reading it is an enormous pleasure. But it doesn't stop there - if readers put these words into action there will be a tremendous impact, not just on themselves, but on the entire world." - Rebekah Palmer, journalist, editor and author of two books including Rhythm, as well as the children's series Champ the Chopper "I absolutely LOVE it. I love the mixture of wisdom, humility and humour. I love the format and the very real and practical advice, which is life changing. Everyone should read this book!" - Joanna Taylor, international yoga and meditation expert
Author : Joey Reiman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 17,52 MB
Release : 2012-12-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1118443691
A proven methodology for building a purpose-powered organization Some ideas are bigger than others, and the Master Idea—your company's purpose—is the biggest. Whether addressing communication between leadership and associates, suppliers to manufacturers, sales force to customers, or brand to consumers, The Story of Purpose details a proven methodology for businesses, small to large, how to build a purpose-inspired organization to positively impact employees, customers, and the bottom line. It reveals the process for uncovering what makes a company distinctive and guides you to discover the fundamental force behind the organization that no competitor can replicate or replace. The Story of Purpose incorporates stories of purpose from Procter & Gamble, McDonald's, Newell Rubbermaid and many more purpose-driven companies. These stories come to life in a comprehensive book that promises to guide, inspire, and transform your organization Offers a blueprint for creating powerful internal and external messages for current and future customers, employees, and shareholders The Story of Purpose will leave you asking yourself "what gets me up in the morning?" instead of "what keeps me up at night?"
Author : Chip Heath
Publisher : Crown Currency
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 10,25 MB
Release : 2010-02-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 030759016X
Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives? The primary obstacle is a conflict that's built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed bestseller Made to Stick. Psychologists have discovered that our minds are ruled by two different systems - the rational mind and the emotional mind—that compete for control. The rational mind wants a great beach body; the emotional mind wants that Oreo cookie. The rational mind wants to change something at work; the emotional mind loves the comfort of the existing routine. This tension can doom a change effort - but if it is overcome, change can come quickly. In Switch, the Heaths show how everyday people - employees and managers, parents and nurses - have united both minds and, as a result, achieved dramatic results: • The lowly medical interns who managed to defeat an entrenched, decades-old medical practice that was endangering patients • The home-organizing guru who developed a simple technique for overcoming the dread of housekeeping • The manager who transformed a lackadaisical customer-support team into service zealots by removing a standard tool of customer service In a compelling, story-driven narrative, the Heaths bring together decades of counterintuitive research in psychology, sociology, and other fields to shed new light on how we can effect transformative change. Switch shows that successful changes follow a pattern, a pattern you can use to make the changes that matter to you, whether your interest is in changing the world or changing your waistline.
Author : Orin Starn
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,96 MB
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0393292819
A narrative history of the unlikely Maoist rebellion that terrorized Peru even after the fall of global Communism. On May 17, 1980, on the eve of Peru’s presidential election, five masked men stormed a small town in the Andean heartland. They set election ballots ablaze and vanished into the night, but not before planting a red hammer-and-sickle banner in the town square. The lone man arrested the next morning later swore allegiance to a group called Shining Path. The tale of how this ferocious group of guerrilla insurgents launched a decade-long reign of terror, and how brave police investigators and journalists brought it to justice, may be the most compelling chapter in modern Latin American history, but the full story has never been told. Described by a U.S. State Department cable as “cold-blooded and bestial,” Shining Path orchestrated bombings, assassinations, and massacres across the cities, countryside, and jungles of Peru in a murderous campaign to seize power and impose a Communist government. At its helm was the professor-turned-revolutionary Abimael Guzmán, who launched his single-minded insurrection alongside two women: his charismatic young wife, Augusta La Torre, and the formidable Elena Iparraguirre, who married Guzmán soon after Augusta’s mysterious death. Their fanatical devotion to an outmoded and dogmatic ideology, and the military’s bloody response, led to the death of nearly 70,000 Peruvians. Orin Starn and Miguel La Serna’s narrative history of Shining Path is both panoramic and intimate, set against the socioeconomic upheavals of Peru’s rocky transition from military dictatorship to elected democracy. They take readers deep into the heart of the rebellion, and the lives and country it nearly destroyed. We hear the voices of the mountain villagers who organized a fierce rural resistance, and meet the irrepressible black activist María Elena Moyano and the Nobel Prize–winning novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, who each fought to end the bloodshed. Deftly written, The Shining Path is an exquisitely detailed account of a little-remembered war that must never be forgotten.
Author : Kay Kenyon
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 37,6 MB
Release : 2010-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1591028256
Kay Kenyon, noted for her science fiction world-building, has in this new series created her most vivid and compelling society, the Universe Entire. In a land-locked galaxy that tunnels through our own, the Entire is a bizarre and seductive mix of long-lived quasi-human and alien beings gathered under a sky of fire, called the bright. A land of wonders, the Entire is sustained by monumental storm walls and an exotic, never-ending river. Over all, the elegant and cruel Tarig rule supreme. Into this rich milieu is thrust Titus Quinn, former star pilot, bereft of his beloved wife and daughter who are assumed dead by everyone on earth except Quinn. Believing them trapped in a parallel universe—one where he himself may have been imprisoned—he returns to the Entire without resources, language, or his memories of that former life. He is assisted by Anzi, a woman of the Chalin people, a Chinese culture copied from our own universe and transformed by the kingdom of the bright. Learning of his daughter’s dreadful slavery, Quinn swears to free her. To do so, he must cross the unimaginable distances of the Entire in disguise, for the Tarig are lying in wait for him. As Quinn’s memories return, he discovers why. Quinn’s goal is to penetrate the exotic culture of the Entire—to the heart of Tarig power, the fabulous city of the Ascendancy, to steal the key to his family’s redemption. But will his daughter and wife welcome rescue? Ten years of brutality have forced compromises on everyone. What Quinn will learn to his dismay is what his own choices were, long ago, in the Universe Entire. He will also discover why a fearful multiverse destiny is converging on him and what he must sacrifice to oppose the coming storm. This is high-concept SF written on the scale of Philip Jose Farmer’s Riverworld, Roger Zelazny’s Amber Chronicles, and Dan Simmons’s Hyperion.
Author : Benjamin Birney
Publisher :
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 10,81 MB
Release : 2018-10-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781717816511
A sprawling science fantasy comic adventure romance political thriller, with goblins and cannons! Jonathan Miller has harbored a secret flame for his childhood friend Merrily Hunter for years, and as Midsummer's Eve approaches he's ready to make his move. But when a cranky, sharp-tongued professor of Applied History rides into town looking for a lost book, Jonathan and Merrily quickly find themselves swept up in an adventure that will take them to the very edges of history, language, and probability. They join a host of colorful men, women, goblins, fey, snarfs, horses, and strange outsiders, all set in a world grappling with the consequences of scientific advance, political unrest, and religious debate. THE BRIGHT PATH features ninety-two pen and ink style illustrations in both e-book and paperback formats.Get the Kindle e-book FREE with your purchase of the paperback through Kindle MatchBook!
