Author : Victoria Vassilious
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 13,78 MB
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1105862399
A book of dark metaphorical and inspirational poetry. The story of a metamorphosis of a caged soul breaking free from her own personal jail.
Author : Heidi Pulito
Publisher :
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 19,20 MB
Release : 2017-06-24
Category :
ISBN : 9780692873212
Does it feel like you are drowning in your veterinary career?Did you know that Veterinarians have one of the highest rates of suicide out of all the professions in the world? Do you want to learn how to better handle your high stress work environment? This book helps lead frustrated veterinarians to freedom by defining the truth about the challenges of the profession, and how to combat them in a way that leads to victory. Victory is defined as thriving in a profession that historically has led most veterinarians into a spiraling depression. By learning about the dangers of bitterness, career idolatry, and victimization, veterinarians can start to see where these dangers are taking root in their own lives and learn how to triumph over them through a relationship with Jesus and His power at work in the mind, body and soul. They can start to discover aspects of their careers that are enjoyable to them as well as finding life outside of the profession that invigorates them. Through balance, community, and serving others, veterinarians can choose to focus on other areas of life instead of drowning in career challenges. My goal for this book is that by using personal examples and strategies from my own veterinary career, veterinarians can come to the realization that they do not have to leave the profession in order to lead an exhilarating career and life built on faith and serving both animals and people.
Author : Mickey Dimic
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,96 MB
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 007159891X
Get what it takes to win-and unleash the ultimate fighter in you Think you know your way around the cage? Think again. Mixed martial arts powerhouse Mickey Dimic, two-time middleweight world champion and Hall of Famer, kicks your game into gear with this no-holds-barred guide to grounding and pounding, sprawling and brawling, and boxing dirty like the toughest contenders. Breaking down the fundamentals of mixed martial arts competition, Dimic brings his decades of MMA experience to teach you the various skills of boxing, wrestling, Muay Thai, judo, and Jiu-jitsu, arming you with an unstoppable arsenal of weapons sure to yield maximum damage to any opponent. With Dimic's cage-tested tips and drills, you'll learn to: Hone your body with proper training Punch and kick with power and precision Beat down your opponent with a merciless full mount Escape from the tightest traps Force submissions with vice-grip grappling holds And strategize your way to victory in every fight
Author : Gerald Stulc
Publisher : First Edition Design Pub.
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 22,82 MB
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 150690632X
Author : James Astill
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,35 MB
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1408192209
On a Bangalore night in April 2008, cricket and India changed forever. It was the first night of the Indian Premier League – cricket, but not as we knew it. It involved big money, glitz, prancing girls and Bollywood stars. It was not so much sport as tamasha: a great entertainment. The Great Tamasha examines how a game and a country, both regarded as synonymous with infinite patience, managed to produce such an event. James Astill explains how India's economic surge and cricketing obsession made it the dominant power in world cricket, off the field if rarely on it. He tells how cricket has become the central focus of the world's second-biggest nation: the place where power and money and celebrity and corruption all meet, to the rapt attention of a billion eyeballs. Astill crosses the subcontinent and, over endless cups of tea, meets the people who make up modern India – from faded princes to back-street bookmakers, slum kids to squillionaires – and sees how cricket shapes their lives and that of their country. Finally, in London he meets Indian cricket's fallen star, Lalit Modi, whose driving energy helped build this new form of cricket before he was dismissed in disgrace: a story that says much about modern India. The Great Tamasha is a fascinating examination of the most important development in cricket today. A brilliant evocation of an endlessly beguiling country, it is also essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the workings of modern India.
Author : John Scally
Publisher : Random House
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 15,2 MB
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1845969472
For 125 years, the GAA has been a fixed point in a fast-changing age, and this oral history marks the125th anniversary of the Association. It is the story of the GAA as seen through the eyes of those key personalities who shaped it. Author Jon Scally has carried out over a hundred revealing interviews with players and managers who are synonymous with the Games, including Babs Keating, Jimmy Barry-Murphy, Ger Loughnane, D.J. Carey, Liam Griffin, Mick O'Dwyer, Colm O'Rourke, John O'Mahony, Joe Brolly and Matt Connor, and these contributions offer a unique eyewitness testimony to the dramas that captivated, enthralled and occasionally infuriated the nation both on and off the pitch. The book sheds new light on high-profile controversies, offers new insights into the players and personalities that linger long in the memory and presents a fresh look at the epic contests that turned Ireland's Games into a national soap opera. The GAA: An Oral History is a celebration of the good, the bad and the beautiful of Gaelic Games, and is a must for all sports fans.
Author : Robert J. Topmiller
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 36,19 MB
Release : 2002-12-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0813137012
During the Vietnam War, Vietnamese Buddhist peace activists made extraordinary sacrifices -- including self-immolation -- to try to end the fighting. They hoped to establish a neutralist government that would broker peace with the Communists and expel the Americans. Robert J. Topmiller explores South Vietnamese attitudes toward the war, the insurgency, and U.S. intervention, and lays bare the dissension within the U.S. military. The Lotus Unleashed is one of the few studies to illuminate the impact of internal Vietnamese politics on U.S. decision-making and to examine the power of a nonviolent movement to confront a violent superpower.
Author : Susan J. Douglas
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 707 pages
File Size : 27,61 MB
Release : 2013-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1452907048
Few inventions evoke such nostalgia, such deeply personal and vivid memories as radio—from Amos ’n’ Andy and Edward R. Murrow to Wolfman Jack and Howard Stern. Listening In is the first in-depth history of how radio culture and content have kneaded and expanded the American psyche. But Listening In is more than a history. It is also a reconsideration of what listening to radio has done to American culture in the twentieth century and how it has brought a completely new auditory dimension to our lives. Susan Douglas explores how listening has altered our day-to-day experiences and our own generational identities, cultivating different modes of listening in different eras; how radio has shaped our views of race, gender roles, ethnic barriers, family dynamics, leadership, and the generation gap. With her trademark wit, Douglas has created an eminently readable cultural history of radio.
Author : John Jeffries Martin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 11,31 MB
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300265441
An award-winning historian’s revisionary account of the early modern world, showing how apocalyptic ideas stimulated political, religious, and intellectual transformations “A masterful synthesis of the prognostications of faith, knowledge, and politics on a global stage. Martin’s book illuminates one of the enduring themes that shaped the medieval and early modern world.”—Paula E. Findlen, Stanford University In this revelatory immersion into the apocalyptic, messianic, and millenarian ideas and movements that created the modern world, John Jeffries Martin performs a kind of empathic time travel, entering into the psyche, spirituality, and temporalities of a cast of historical actors in profound moments of discovery. He argues that religious faith—Christian, Jewish, and Muslim—did not oppose but rather fostered the making of a modern scientific spirit, buoyed along by a providential view of history and nature, and a deep conviction in the coming End of the World. Through thoughtful attention to the primary sources, Martin re‑reads the Renaissance, excavating a religious foundation at the core of even the most radical empirical thinking. Familiar icons like Ibn Khaldūn, Columbus, Isaac Luria, and Francis Bacon emerge startlingly fresh and newly gleaned, agents of a history formerly untold and of a modern world made in the image of its imminent end.
Author : Robert E. Weir
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1193 pages
File Size : 38,39 MB
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : History
ISBN :
This encyclopedia traces the evolution of American workers and labor organizations from pre-Revolutionary America through the present day. In 2001, Robert E. Weir's two-volume Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor was chosen as a New York Public Library Best in Reference selection. Weir recently revised this groundbreaking resource, resulting in content that is more accessible, comprehensive, and timely. The newest edition, Workers in America: A Historical Encyclopedia, features updated entries, recent court cases, a chronology of key events, an enriched index, and an extensive bibliography for additional research. This expansive encyclopedia examines the complete panorama of America's work history, including the historical account of work and workers, the social inequities between the rich and poor, violence in the Labor Movement, and issues of globalization and industrial economics. Organized in two volumes and arranged in A–Z order, the 350 entries span key events, collective actions, pivotal figures, landmark legislation, and important concepts in the world of labor and work.
