Author : Garret Kramer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 15,58 MB
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1582703892
Challenges traditional practices about the role of willpower in performance and overcoming adversity, sharing true case stories to counsel athletes and high performers on how to tap inner resources to achieve mental clarity and personal excellence.
Author : Garret Kramer
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,92 MB
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1626341184
A FRESH TAKE ON THE INBORN CHARACTERISTIC OF RESILIENCE Most people are convinced that the key to rising above a perceived problem is to think about it, analyze all angles, and try hard to solve it. But the fact is: Problems in the world are mounting. War, famine, and strife exist at alarming rates. Not to mention that the level of respect within our families and communities seems to be fraying. Simply put, our behavior is not up to par these days; it is spiraling downward. Why? We’re not connecting the dots. In the arenas of psychology, teaching, coaching, and parenting, we’re using behavioral strategies to boost inner levels of clarity and consciousness—to no avail. So, if focusing on behavior isn’t working, what will? The Path of No Resistance provides a brand-new look at how human beings really overcome adversity. Along the way, Garret Kramer reveals the astonishing truth about what creates our troubles in the first place. And what we already know, deep down, that allows us to prosper in spite of any circumstance or situation. Offering an array of examples, Kramer demonstrates that resilience and contentment are—in principle—innate to everyone. He insists that calculated self-help methods are not the answer, and explains why insight, not intellect, is what fuels our ability to excel and give back to others.
Author : Penelope Douglas
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 41,74 MB
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593641973
Three of them, one of her, and a remote cabin in the woods. Let the hot, winter nights ensue in this steamy dark romance from New York Times bestselling author Penelope Douglas, now with bonus material. Tiernan de Haas doesn't care about anything anymore. The only child of a film producer and his starlet wife, she's grown up with wealth and privilege but not love or guidance. And when her parents suddenly pass away, she knows she should be devastated. But she's always been alone, hasn't she? Jake Van der Berg, her father's stepbrother and her only living relative, assumes guardianship of Tiernan. Sent to live in the mountains of Colorado with Jake and his two sons, Noah and Kaleb, Tiernan quickly learns that these men now have a say in what she chooses to care and not care about anymore. As the men take Tiernan under their wing, she slowly finds her place among them. Because lines blur and rules become easy to break when no one else is watching. One of them has her. The other one wants her. But he's going to keep her.
Author : Jasmine Gordon
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,84 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781490811932
Gospel recording minister, radio personality Jasmine Gordon has added writing to her list of credentials in this believer's guide to effective prayer. Through personal experience and live testimonials, she gives an inspiring firsthand account of prayer, a mandatory but often neglected tool in the battle against spiritual warfare. Gordon details the essentials of effective prayer that will yield results in your life, explaining prayer's various components and revealing unconscious distractions that may be keeping you from your breakthrough. The contents of Fear Not! There Is Still Power in Prayer will quench spiritual thirsts while leaving your spiritual appetite open to crave intimacy with God. It will provoke unbelievers to inquire and seek who is God and propel backsliders to find their way back to Him. It will persuade born-again believers to pursue and maintain a unique relationship with God. Experience the power of this divinely inspired narrative as told by none other than Nichole "Jasmine" Gordon. "Jasmine writes about praying from the heart; she inspires and teaches us how to listen to God. She is an inspiration to me and others around her. I believe my own prayers were answered when I met Jasmine, who has shown me how to stay strong even in adverse situations. She is restoring my hope again in prayers and the faith to remain positive in my life. She truly has a gift to share, and I hope others feel the same and read her words. With God, all things are possible." -Michele Paccione, council member of the City of Palm Bay
Author : William W. Woods
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 24,40 MB
Release : 2009-02-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1453550488
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Author : Jennifer Jenkins
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 16,9 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415258050
Assuming no prior knowledge, this book offers an accessible overview of English dialects, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries & key readings. It is structured around four sections: introduction, development, exploration & extension.
Author : Matthew Mather
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 12,69 MB
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 144343227X
In this prescient thriller about an all-too-possible scenario, a man fights to keep his family alive when a cyberworld meltdown and fierce storms cut New York City off from the world. Mike Mitchell is an average New Yorker living in an apartment in Chelsea, struggling to keep his family together. When the Internet goes down, he suddenly finds himself fighting just to keep them alive. The electricity and power supplies fade in and out, and the explanations offered by the authorities are vague and untrustworthy. A string of increasingly bizarre disasters starts appearing on the world’s news networks, and a monster snowstorm hits New York City before Christmas. Mike and his close friends and family hunker down in their apartment building for safety, organizing and rationing food and water. Outside, the boundaries between lawful and criminal behaviour break down as resources become scarce. With the threat to their safety growing, Mike and his family pin their hopes on fleeing the city for the countryside. But as the world and cyberworld come crashing down, New York is suddenly cut off, turning the city into a wintry tomb where nothing is what it seems, and where no one can be trusted . . .
Author : Marianne Power
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 23,82 MB
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0802146880
“Consistently entertaining . . . she writes with unflinching honesty . . . Bridget Jones meets Buddha in this plucky, heartwarming, comical debut memoir.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) For years journalist Marianne Power lined her bookshelves with dog-eared copies of definitive guides on how to live your best life, dipping in and out of self-help books when she needed them most. Then, one day, she woke up to find that the life she hoped for and the life she was living were worlds apart—and she set out to make some big changes. Marianne decided to finally find out if her elusive “perfect existence” —the one without debt, anxiety, or hangover Netflix marathons, the one where she healthily bounced around town and met the cashmere-sweater-wearing man of her dreams—really did lie in the pages of our best known and acclaimed self-help books. She vowed to test a book a month for one year, following its advice to the letter, taking what she hoped would be the surest path to a flawless new her. But as the months passed and Marianne’s reality was turned upside down, she found herself confronted with a different question: Self-help can change your life, but is it for the better? With humor, audacity, disarming candor and unassuming wisdom, in Help Me Marianne Power plumbs the trials and tests of being a modern woman in a “have it all” culture, and what it really means to be our very best selves. “Equal parts touching and hilarious, Power’s account of the year she spent following the tenets of self-help books will make you feel better about your own flawed life.” —People
Author : Mark Engler
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 31,29 MB
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1568585144
There is a craft to uprising -- and this craft can change the world From protests around climate change and immigrant rights, to Occupy, the Arab Spring, and #BlackLivesMatter, a new generation is unleashing strategic nonviolent action to shape public debate and force political change. When mass movements erupt onto our television screens, the media consistently portrays them as being spontaneous and unpredictable. Yet, in this book, Mark and Paul Engler look at the hidden art behind such outbursts of protest, examining core principles that have been used to spark and guide moments of transformative unrest. With incisive insights from contemporary activists, as well as fresh revelations about the work of groundbreaking figures such as Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Gene Sharp, and Frances Fox Piven, the Englers show how people with few resources and little conventional influence are engineering the upheavals that are reshaping contemporary politics. Nonviolence is usually seen simply as a philosophy or moral code. This Is an Uprising shows how it can instead be deployed as a method of political conflict, disruption, and escalation. It argues that if we are always taken by surprise by dramatic outbreaks of revolt, we pass up the chance to truly understand how social transformation happens.
Author : Audrey Kurth Cronin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 11,34 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0190882166
Essential reading on how technology empowers rogue actors and how society can adapt. Never have so many possessed the means to be so lethal. A dramatic shift from 20th century "closed" military innovation to "open" innovation driven by commercial processes is underway. The diffusion of modern technology--robotics, cyber weapons, 3-D printing, synthetic biology, autonomous systems, and artificial intelligence--to ordinary people has given them access to weapons of mass violence previously monopolized by the state. As Audrey Kurth Cronin explains in Power to the People, what we are seeing now is the continuation of an age-old trend. Over the centuries, from the invention of dynamite to the release of the AK-47, many of the most surprising developments in warfare have occurred because of technological advances combined with changes in who can use them. That shifting social context illuminates our current situation, in which new "open" technologies are reshaping the future of war. Cronin explains why certain lethal technologies spread, which ones to focus on, and how individuals and private groups will adapt lethal off-the-shelf technologies for malevolent ends. Now in paperback with a foreword by Lawrence Freedman and a new epilogue, Power to the People focuses on how to both preserve the promise of emerging technologies and reduce risks. Power is flowing to the people, but the same digital technologies that empower can imperil global security--unless we act strategically.
