Author : Michael Z
Publisher : Sales Gravy Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 12,8 MB
Release : 2007-12
Category : Christian life
ISBN : 0979441692
Rich in content, deep in meaning, and simple in application, this delivers timeless, relevant, and highly practical advice for dealing with life on life's terms.
Author : Michael Dumlao
Publisher :
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,52 MB
Release : 2021-11-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781637306215
Are you the black sheep in your family who chafes at traditions and seeks examples of how to redefine them? The Wisdom of Guncles is about queer people and their relationship with family - however they choose to define it. Featuring a diverse pantheon of gay uncles ("guncles") and other queer mentors, their stories offer unique perspectives about life, love, and personal empowerment. With each chapter, Dumlao examines what various LGBTQ+ experiences teach about disrupting norms, exploring identity, and creating chosen families that affirm one's truth. Readers will ponder questions such as: How do I challenge and change traditions that hide those that are different? If I choose to never dim my light, will I become a beacon for others lost in the dark? How will recovering past stories and unsung heroes help us create a better future? How can I leave a space more welcoming than how I found it? The Wisdom of Guncles shares ten powerful journeys, each bearing knowledge honed through struggle and triumph, on living with audacious authenticity and compassion. While these narratives are unapologetically queer, they hold universal lessons about the human condition that, like all stories about family, are grounded in love.
Author : Michael Card
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,93 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781572931923
Card brings a special blend of artistic craft and scholarly research to this candid look at the text of John--including his own translation of the gospel from the original Greek text. He introduces readers to the apostle in a fresh new way and offers insight into the apostle's unique outlook on life.
Author : Michael L. Brodie
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 11,82 MB
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1947487175
This book celebrates Michael Stonebraker's accomplishments that led to his 2014 ACM A.M. Turing Award "for fundamental contributions to the concepts and practices underlying modern database systems." The book describes, for the broad computing community, the unique nature, significance, and impact of Mike's achievements in advancing modern database systems over more than forty years. Today, data is considered the world's most valuable resource, whether it is in the tens of millions of databases used to manage the world's businesses and governments, in the billions of databases in our smartphones and watches, or residing elsewhere, as yet unmanaged, awaiting the elusive next generation of database systems. Every one of the millions or billions of databases includes features that are celebrated by the 2014 Turing Award and are described in this book. Why should I care about databases? What is a database? What is data management? What is a database management system (DBMS)? These are just some of the questions that this book answers, in describing the development of data management through the achievements of Mike Stonebraker and his over 200 collaborators. In reading the stories in this book, you will discover core data management concepts that were developed over the two greatest eras (so far) of data management technology. The book is a collection of 36 stories written by Mike and 38 of his collaborators: 23 world-leading database researchers, 11 world-class systems engineers, and 4 business partners. If you are an aspiring researcher, engineer, or entrepreneur you might read these stories to find these turning points as practice to tilt at your own computer-science windmills, to spur yourself to your next step of innovation and achievement.
Author : Ron Head
Publisher :
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 20,73 MB
Release : 2015-03-29
Category :
ISBN : 9781514618417
Here are highlights from two years of channeled messages from Archangel Michael through internationally known channel Ron Head. The subjects covered include channeling, discernment, change, our greater selves, imagination, self-worth, and many more. This book is an invaluable guide to the growth and evolution of one's self in these important times. Readers have called it inspiring, timely, and practical. You will also find occasional humor as the messages both entertain and uplift the reader.Click on the 'Look Inside' tab for a sample.
Author : Ronald L. Troxel
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 43,46 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1575061058
Michael V. Fox, long-time professor in the Dept. of Hebrew and Semitic Studies at the University of Wisconsin--Madison, is known both for his scholarship and his teaching. As the editors of this volume in his honor note, the care and sensitivity of his reading of the Hebrew text are well known, and he lavishes equal attention on his own writing, to the benefit of all who read his work, which now includes the first of two volumes in the Anchor Bible commentary on Proverbs (the next volume is in preparation), as well as monographs on wisdom literature in ancient Israel and elsewhere, and many articles. The rigor that he brought to his own work he also inflicted on his students, and they and a number of his colleagues honor him with their contributions to this volume. Contributors include: Menahem Haran, Kelvin G. Friebel, Cynthia L. Miller, Theron Young, Adele Berlin, William P. Brown, James L. Crenshaw, John A. Cook, Robert D. Holmstedt, Shamir Yona, Christine Roy Yoder, Carol R. Fontaine, Nili Shupak, Victor Avigdor Horowitz, Tova Forti, Richard L. Schultz, J. Cheryl Exum, Dennis R. Magary, Theodore J. Lewis, Sidnie White Crawford, Ronald L. Troxel, Karl V. Kutz, Heidi M. Szpek, Claudia V. Camp, Johann Cook, Leonard Greenspoon, Stephen G. Burnett, Carol A. Newsom, Shemaryahu Talmon, and Frederick E. Greenspahn. The book is organized around themes that reflect Prof. Fox's interests and work: Part 1: "Seeking Out Wisdom and Concerned with Prophecies" (Sir 39:1): Studies in Biblical Texts"; Part 2: "Preserving the Sayings of the Famous" (Sir 39:2): Text, Versions, and Method.
Author : Paul Kilduff
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 28,31 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Air travel
ISBN : 9781845135416
On airline security: ‘We are not going to die at the hands of toiletries.’On popularity: ‘I don’t give a shite if nobody likes me.’On customer service: ‘Are we going to apologise if something goes wrong? No, we’re f***ing not.’Refunds? ‘You can’t have one, so f*** off’. Airport operators? ‘Overcharging rapists’. The European Commission? ‘Communists’. Travel agents? ‘Fuckers’. Some might call it radical, ruthless business logic; others, the foulmouthed abuse of a shameless gobshite. Whatever: Michael O’Leary, the shrinking violet who is Chief Executive of the awesomely successful low-cost airline Ryanair, has made it his business to offer you his opinion on everything, even if it often makes you wish you hadn’t asked. Now, here is the very baddest of his collected wit and wisdom, on everything from the possibility of charging passengers for going to the loo on his planes to his Aunty-f***ing-Mavis. We may hate him when we end up being charged forty quid for a flight we thought we were getting for a penny, but who can fail to be mesmerised, enlightened or just laugh out loud at some of the stuff that issues relentlessly from the man’s lips?Paul Kilduff is the author of the bestselling Ruinair (2008) and four novels. He lives in Ireland.
Author : Michael K. Kellogg
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 19,52 MB
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1616145765
The philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once said that all of Western philosophy was "but a series of footnotes to Plato." By the same token, one could argue that all of Western civilization is but an extension of the ancient Greek cultural legacy. The Greeks invented tragedy, comedy, lyric poetry, history, philosophy, and democracy. They also made remarkable advances in science, medicine, and mathematics. In the author’s view, what ties this wide-ranging intellectual ferment together is a restless search for wisdom. The author looks at ten outstanding examples of Greek wisdom, offering fresh and engaging portraits of the epic poets (Homer, Hesiod); dramatists (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes); historians (Herodotus, Thucydides); and philosophers (Plato, Aristotle) against the background of Greek history. In each case he asks what the author has to tell us— regardless of genre—about our place in the world and how we should live our lives. By surveying some of the highest peaks of ancient civilization, the author argues that we gain perspective on the historical terrain that lies below. This book presents an eloquent and convincing case that a study of the Greek classics, as Gustave Flaubert explained, makes us "greater, wiser, purer."
Author : Joy S. Pedersen
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,53 MB
Release : 2011-03
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781450297035
Are you interested in how angels hear and answer your prayers? Then listen to the words of Archangel Michael as he communicates his messages to you through Dr. Joy S. Pedersen, a licensed spiritual healer. Through automatic writing, Pedersen has channeled Archangel Michael's thought-provoking views on life. Archangel Michael shares his spiritual wisdom on a wide assortment of topics, including how to improve your finances, relationships, and work. He also offers his advice for how to stop war, create peace on earth, and prepare for heaven on earth. Using clear, concise language, Michael also offers insight into how angels communicate with human beings, listen to our prayers, and attempt to help us on a daily basis. In addition, Michael focuses on how we are oft en the solution to our own problems, but we fail to give ourselves enough credit to achieve our goals. He encourages us to use our inner strength to deal with life's problems. Archangel Michael's recommendations guide you in making significant differences in your life, the lives of others, and the life of the planet. If you truly want change, the right job, abundance, loving relationships, and peace on earth while evolving as a soul in preparation for heaven on earth, "Wisdom of the Guardian" is your essential resource.
Author : N. Michael Murphy
Publisher : HarperElement
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,37 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781862045798
Interweaving the intensely moving stories of those who have met death and those who have accompanied them, with stories from ancient myth and legend, and insights gained from the author's decades of experience in guiding others on their journey toward death, this remarkable book may well change your approach to life.
