A frontier romance between a young girl and a much older man starts a dynasty from their love and when one grandson has a lover on death's door, the young girl now 95 intervenes and teaches them extravagant love.
Autorul bestsellerului New York Times Unfu*k Yourself Autorul bestsellerului Unfu*k Yourself îți oferă aici o metodă dură, fără menajamente, pentru a-ți face relațiile funcționale: să îți asumi responsabilitatea de a te repara pe tine însuți. „Iubirea are răbdare, iubirea este oarbă..." Până când nu mai este. Și atunci, ce se întâmplă? Indiferent cât de multe sfaturi primim sau cât de multă atenție acordăm „chestiunii", nimic nu pare vreodată că e de ajutor. Adevărul e că ești îngrozitor de slab înzestrat(ă) pentru unul dintre lucrurile definitorii ale vieții tale: acela de a te afla într-o relație serioasă. Fie că în prezent ai o relație sau vrei să ai una, te străduiești să uiți o relație, ești căsătorit(ă) sau singur(ă), separat(ă), divorțat(ă) sau doar copleșit(ă) de toată povestea, hai să terminăm odată cu coșmarul acestei farse și să te facem din nou responsabil(ă) de viața ta! Fără prostii și înflorituri, fără strategii, sisteme și tehnici paranormale; doar discuții reale, pentru oameni reali, care vor în viața lor o relație reală și funcțională. Gary John Bishop este unul dintre experții de prim rang din domeniul dezvoltării personale. Este autorul cărții Unfu*k Yourself, bestseller New York Times, precum și al titlurilor Gata cu tâmpeniile și Do the Work. Abordarea sa de tip „filosofie urbană" reprezintă noul val în transformarea personală pozitivă și arta de a trăi, care asigură oamenilor rezultate miraculoase în ceea ce privește calitatea vieții și performanțele obținute.
Pulp History brings to life extraordinary feats of bravery, violence, and redemption that history has forgotten. These stories are so dramatic and thrilling they have to be true. In SHADOW KNIGHTS, everyday men and women risk their lives on top-secret missions to sabotage Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. Hell-bent on conquering Europe, Hitler had just set his sights on England when Winston Churchill reached into his bag of tricks and invented a secret spy network of ordinary citizens. These schoolteachers, housewives, prostitutes, and farmers abandoned their former lives, trained in covert black ops, and set Europe ablaze. Parachuting into Nazi territory under the cover of night, they destroyed factories, armed resistance networks, and turned Hitler’s juggernaut on its head.
The most profound thinkers, East and West, have concluded that thought or reason cannot know what is real, cannot discover truth. The universal insight that led to this conclusion is that thought itself is not free but enslaved by desire or passion. Modern and postmodern Western thought has resigned itself to this inability to discover truth, while Eastern thought offers varied remedies intended to liberate thought. The Liberation of Thought will show how ancient Western thought also offered remedies, explaining how modern Western thought was unable to retain this remedial teaching. In so doing, The Liberation of Thought will present a universal teaching, born in the East and brought to the West, that restates ancient Eastern and Western remedies to thought's enslavement, pointing the way to a direct and certain discovery of truth.
Why do baseball fans stretch in the seventh inning? Why do hockey players wear shorts? These are the questions that try sports fans souls, sending the most ardent athletic aficionados into a tailspin. Luckily, sports lore is the domain of Answer Guy, whose column in ESPN The Magazine is the first place those fans turn to for answers.Now Answer Guys hilarious, highly anecdotal and mostly correct answers are compiled for the first time in this easy-to-tote volume that includes 65 of the best published and never-before-seen columns along with new material such as: testimony from famous and not-so-famous Answer Guy sources; an Answer Guy quiz; A Brief History of Inquiry; and questions Answer Guy thought of asking but didnt.
Compelling and straight-shooting wisdom for coping with whatever challenges life throws at us from the New York Times bestselling author of Unfu*k Yourself. In Unfu*k Yourself, Gary John Bishop taught millions of readers how to silence the negative, self-sabotaging voice in their head to thrive. In Wise As Fu*k he expands on his ideas, redefining what it means to be wise and showing how to tackle problems and improve our lives and those of others. When the shit storms of life hit us, many of us don’t know what to do—whether it’s losing a job, suffering a broken heart, or just feeling a lack of purpose. We need wisdom to help us navigate forward. While the internet is full of seemingly good advice, it isn’t helping us actually change our lives. Wise As Fu*k breaks through the bullshit, providing insight to inspire us in the four areas we need it most: love, loss, fear, and success. Written with his widely admired no-nonsense style, Wise As Fu*k provides a welcome fresh perspective to help us transform how we approach a variety of life’s problems. But Bishop makes clear, the work doesn’t stop there. Now that you’ve unfu*ked yourself and and are wise as fu*k about these touchy areas, you can apply the lessons to make a positive impact on the world.
Are you overdue for some attention? Wondering why you aren't getting recognition and compliments you deserve. Feeling disgruntled because your praiseworthy efforts are not being recognized.HERE'S A GREAT BOOK FOR YOU!Fact is, our culture today is obsessively focused on unrealistically positive expectations: Be happier. Be healthier. Be the best, better than the rest. Be smarter, faster, richer, sexier, more popular, more productive, more envied, and more admired. Be perfect and amazing and crap out twelve karat-gold nuggets before breakfast each morning while kissing your selfie-ready spouse and two and a half kids' goodbye. Then fly your helicopter to your wonderfully fulfilling job, where you spend your days doing incredibly meaningful work that's likely to save the planet one day. But when you stop and really think about it, conventional life advice-all the positive and happy self-help stuff we hear all the time-is actually fixating on what you lack. It lasers in on what you perceive your personal shortcomings and failures to already be, and then emphasizes them for you. You learn about the best ways to make money because you feel you don't have enough money already. You stand in front of the mirror and repeat affirmations saying that you're beautiful because you feel as though you're not beautiful already. You follow dating and relationship advice because you feel that you're unlovable already. You try goofy visualization exercises about being more successful because you feel as though you aren't successful enough already.The pages of this bestseller is dedicated to those that have experience that self-defeating monologue. The endless stream of doubt and subterfuge that limits and taints everyday life. This book deals on solution to make sure you always get the recognition and appreciation you deserve. This will turn out as a conversational wake up from the universe to rouse you up to your true potential, to get your sh*t together yourself and get spectacularly into your lifeStop waiting for it to come from someone else. Give it to yourself in a measure equal to what you are entitled to receive when you purchase this book.Scroll up now and click the "ADD TO CART" button to get this book now!!!
In Psychotherapy Reflections a psychoanalytically-informed patient describes his feelings about his therapeutic relationship and critically examines selected therapy sessions from a nine-month course of treatment. Many texts about psychotherapy are based either on patient narratives or on a clinical model. Psychotherapy Reflections, however, combines patient narrative with probing insight and dream analysis based on the work of noted dream researcher Stanley R. Palombo, M.D., who has shown that dreams serve an information-processing function by matching present and past experience in determining what information will be filtered through for storage in permanent memory.
This is a self-help book designed for men and women who find that the life they are living does not match up with the life that they hoped and dreamed they would be living. This book helps the reader understand how and why their psychology encourages them towards dysfunctional thoughts, feelings and behaviors and then provides a roadmap towards self-actualization and realizing one's dreams.
People Are Not the SamePeople look different, are not the same age, have their own color, religion, outlook on life, and were brought up differently. People have their own circumstances, encounters, problems, and situations. They also have an agenda, plan, motives, and their own personality.All people deserve freedom, to be treated with respect, without harm, with honesty, and positivity.Everyone has the right to love and a great quality of life.Twins might look the same but do not have the same situations, encounters, friends, and relationships. Presidents, including Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, John Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and Jimmy Carter, are or were extremely different.When a person takes away another person's positive motives, they are also violating that person's rights. When a person steals from another person, they are violating that person's rights.People that steal have the right to be treated the same as others who steal but must face the consequences that fit their crime. You cannot treat people the same and expect the same result. People are not the same because they have so many different characteristics, and do not treat others alike as explained in this book.
When Truth Turns the Light On is a collection of insightful quotes and statements dealing with everyday issues from, the nature of truth to a culture on the fringe. The points of view being shared by the author is a view from inside the 99% where truth, equality and, justice reigns.
Many texts in the New Testament do more than simply explain the main tenets of the Christian faith; they invite believers to imagine and experience their theological claims. In Not with Wisdom of Words Gary Selby shows how biblical authors used poetic, imaginative language to inspire their audiences to experience a heightened sense of God's presence.
Based on the life-changing lessons from the New York Times bestselling book that has now sold 1 million copies, Do the Work will actually make people do the work to change their lives"--
CAREER PATHS “I like how Carter, Cook, and Dorsey have balanced the perspective and needs of the employee with the needs of the organization. They’ve provided a practical toolkit for practitioners, rooted in a strong conceptual model. I have looked at other sources on career paths in organizations, but this is the book I’d actually use to design a system.” Steven D. Ashworth Ph.D, Manager, Human Resource Research & Analysis, Sempra Energy Utilities “If you are, like me, a consultant who helps organizations develop and utilize their talent toward maximum performance; or a business leader building a worldclass organization with limited financial resources; or a Human Resources manager whose Generation Y employees are anxious to get ahead – you need to read this book. It clearly defines the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of using career path models as the foundation for a comprehensive talent management process.” Gena Cox Ph.D, Managing Consultant, Human Capital Resource Center Career Paths offers a career path model and useful tools and tips for developing, implementing, and integrating career paths into talent management systems. The authors describe the value of career paths from individual employee, organizational, and industry standpoints and show how career path efforts can be integrated with recruitment and hiring, strategic planning, succession management, employee development, and retention programs. With a sample career path guide and a list of resources for organizations, this book is an indispensable reference for HR professionals, managers and executives, training and development professionals, and organizational consultants.
Are socioeconomic inequalities in education declining? Is socioeconomic background becoming less important for people’s occupational class or status? How important is cognitive ability for education and later occupational outcomes? How do countries differ in the importance of socioeconomic background for education and work? Gary N. Marks argues that in western industrialized countries, pervasive views that socioeconomic background (or class background) has strong and unchanging relationships with education and later socioeconomic outcomes, resistant to policy and social change, are unfounded. Marks provides a large amount of evidence from many countries showing that the influence of socioeconomic background for education is moderate and most often declining, and socioeconomic background has only very weak impacts on adults’ occupation and earnings after taking into account education and cognitive ability. Furthermore, Marks shows that cognitive ability is a more powerful influence than socioeconomic background for educational outcomes, and that in addition to its indirect effects through education has a direct effect on occupation and earnings. Its effects cannot be dismissed as simply another aspect of socioeconomic background, nor do the usual criticisms of ‘cognitive ability’ apply. The declining effects for socioeconomic background and the importance of cognitive ability support several of the contentions of modernization theory. The book contributes to a variety of debates within sociology: quantitative and qualitative approaches, explanatory and non-explanatory theory, the relationship between theory and empirical research, the role of political ideology in research, sociology as a social science, and sociology’s contribution to knowledge about contemporary societies. It will appeal to professionals in the fields of education and sociology as well as postgraduate students and academics involved in the debate.
A guide to the information and practical skills for successful instructional design, revised and updated The updated eighth edition of Designing Effective Instruction offers educators an essential guide for designing effective and efficient instruction that is exciting and interesting. The flexible model presented is based on research from many different disciplines. The authors—noted experts on the topic—draw on recent research that incorporates both behavioral and cognitive approaches into the model. The eighth edition highlights the fundamentals of instructional design that can help students develop a solid foundation in the design process. These basic skills can be adapted to a wide variety of settings, such as multimedia, classroom, business, health care, higher education, and distance-education instruction. This new edition has been revised to include information on the most recent research and trends. The book also contains a new section on the topic of lean instructional design. This new section discusses strategies to reduce time and resources for each step of the process. This important guide: Offers a review of the basic skills needed to create effective instruction Includes various features to stimulate thinking and provides additional explanations Provides a real-world scenario in every chapter Presents exercises to test skills and knowledge Contains a quality management section to help conduct a quick quality check of the design project Written for instructional designers in business, military, medical, and government settings as well as to those in higher education and P–12 classrooms, Designing Effective Instruction is the proven resource for designing quality instruction that can motivate participants.
The species of Calosota Curtis (Hymenoptera: Eupelmidae) from the New World and Europe are reviewed. An illustrated key is provided to differentiate 11 species recognized from the West Indies and Central and North America, 7 new species are described, and 3 new synonyms, 2 new combinations and 1 revived status are proposed.
Dual diagnosis of adolescent substance use disorders and comorbid psychiatric disorders must be treated simultaneously to be effective. Adolescent Substance Abuse: Psychiatric Comorbidity and High Risk Behaviors presents leading experts offering insightful viewpoints and dynamic suggestions on how to best provide simultaneous treatment and integrated services to these youths. The book covers the state of the art in the field of substance use disorders, reviews different psychiatric disorders and high risk behaviors, and then addresses the issue of integrated services and ethical, legal, and policy issues pertaining to this population. The text is extensively referenced and several chapters include helpful tables and figures to clearly display the data.
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