Tough Decisions places readers in realistic composites of cases the authors have actually seen or managed where they must make tough medical decisions. What happens in them often depends on the reader's decisions and thus gives a sense of pressures that bear on clinical-decision making.
The SED plan is an easy to follow and practical guide which shows parents and caregivers what to do when their children misbehave, and how to encourage them to behave sensibly and responsibly more often. The SED plan has repeatedly proved to be a successful way of improving children's behaviour.
To honor the life and times of The Focus Theatre, this new title provides an insight into Ireland's only arthouse theatre from the people who were there. Through interviews, articles, short memoirs, and photographs, Stanislavski in Ireland: Focus at Fifty tracks the theatre from its inception. Many of Ireland's leading theatre and film artists trained and worked at Focus, including Gabriel Byrne, Joan Bergin, Olwen Fouere, Brendan Coyle, Rebecca Schull, Johnny Murphy, Sean Campion, Tom Hickey, and Mary Elizabeth and Declan Burke-Kennedy. The book comes complete with a chronological list of productions.
You are probably asking yourself, "why should I read this book?" The answer is simple: If you want a shortcut to success in any area, you ask experts who have devoted their lives to being successful in that one area and were kind enough to write it all down in a book. If you want golf tips, you read a book from Jack Nicklaus. If you want bodybuilding tips, Arnold Schwarzenegger is your man. If you want to learn to cook, ask Julia Childs. If you want tips on raising safe, happy, successful kids, then I am your man. The inspiration for this book came from the youth pastor that was performing my son's wedding ceremony; he had commented about how wonderful my two kids were and that I should write a book so he could read it to help him raise his kids. I have a son and a daughter, who love the Lord, have never been arrested, or tried any drugs. They both achieved high honors in high school and today both are successful mechanical engineers with families of their own. This collection of anecdotes and tips offers a summary of all I have learned and implemented as I raised my safe, happy, successful children and will help you as you do the same.
Twenty Irish immigrants, suspected of belonging to a secret terrorist organization called the Molly Maguires, were executed in Pennsylvania in the 1870s for the murder of sixteen men. Ever since, there has been enormous disagreement over who the Molly Maguires were, what they did, and why they did it, as virtually everything we now know about the Molly Maguires is based on the hostile descriptions of their contemporaries. Arguing that such sources are inadequate to serve as the basis for a factual narrative, Kevin Kenny examines the ideology behind contemporary evidence to explain how and why a particular meaning came to be associated with the Molly Maguires in Ireland and Pennsylvania. At the same time, this work examines new archival evidence from Ireland that establishes that the American Molly Maguires were a rare transatlantic strand of the violent protest endemic in the Irish countryside. Combining social and cultural history, Making Sense of the Molly Maguires offers a new explanation of who the Molly Maguires were, as well as why people wrote and believed such curious things about them. In the process, it vividly retells one of the classic stories of American labor and immigration. In the twenty-fifth anniversary edition, a new preface reflects on the original work, immigration and labor history today, and the enduring memory of the Molly Maguires in American popular culture.
Winner of the 2014 Christian Book of the Year Award "I'M TOO BUSY!" We've all heard it. We've all said it. All too often, busyness gets the best of us. Just one look at our jam-packed schedules tells us how hard it can be to strike a well-reasoned balance between doing nothing and doing it all. That's why award-winning author and pastor Kevin DeYoung addresses the busyness problem head on in his newest book, Crazy Busy — and not with the typical arsenal of time management tips, but rather with the biblical tools we need to get to the source of the issue and pull the problem out by the roots. Highly practical and super short, Crazy Busy will help you put an end to "busyness as usual.
Depicts the making of the film "Dances With Wolves." Includes the screenplay, features about Plains Indians culture, and information on the historical background.
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