Growing up in segregated Jacksonville during the sixties and seventies, Author Mike Williams, Sr. witnessed and experienced incidents that inspired the writing of this memoir A Choice of Colors: The Inspirations and Struggles of a Duval Colored Teacher. Every aspect of life was based on a person's color. Listening and understanding the racially based stories of Williams' neighbors, who were born at the turn of the century and into the 1920s or 1930s, was difficult for a young black boy with very dark skin. Still, he was so inspired and influenced by his African American teachers, referred to as "colored teachers," that that he wanted to be like them. The motivation and encouragement they gave Williams caused him to push through and continue his education, despite family health setbacks and attempted gang recruitments. Then when he enrolled in a mixed-media visual arts class in high school, his life was transformed. In these pages, Williams shares his journey of struggles, prejudices, and victories as a dark-skinned African-American teacher in the Duval Country School System. He persevered for the sake of his students, paying it forward so that one day, his students will also make a difference in the lives of young people.
From an expert on Bible translation and interpretation comes a revealing look at the Minor Prophets. Michael Williams, PhD, takes readers on a journey from Hosea to Malachi, uncovering significant messages about Jesus and the gospel. Making these often overlooked books accessible, Williams gives insight into each of the minor prophets, exploring Little-known facts about the prophet The gospel according to the prophet Why the prophet should matter to readers Though the Minor Prophets of the Old Testament may seem obscure, readers will discover the significance that lies within these short books and how the relevance of these books will help grow their faith. Questions prompt readers to reflect on what each prophet’s message means for their own faith.
What Dr. Williams discovered through his research on the "Law of Attraction" is the real SECRET that almost every other author left out of there books when addressing the "Law of Attraction." The one "KEY" component to making this LAW work in a person's life is this: The "KEY" is the "Subconscious Mind." The Subconscious mind fills multiple roles in activating the "Law of Attraction." Dr. Michael Williams has been performing research into the area of the "Law of Attraction" for several years now and through his research found the real SECRET behind making the "Law of Attraction" work. The real SECRET is the "Subconscious mind," and through the subconscious mind our reality comes forth.
“The relationship between a mother and daughter is one of the most complicated and meaningful there is. Kimberly Williams-Paisley writes about her own with grace, truth, and beauty as she shares her journey back to her mother in the wake of a devastating illness.” —Brooke Shields Many know Kimberly Williams-Paisley as the bride in the popular Steve Martin remakes of the Father of the Bride movies, the calculating Peggy Kenter on Nashville, or the wife of country music artist, Brad Paisley. But behind the scenes, Kim was dealing with a tragic secret: her mother, Linda, was suffering from a rare form of dementia that slowly crippled her ability to talk, write and eventually recognize people in her own family. Where the Light Gets In tells the full story of Linda’s illness—called primary progressive aphasia—from her early-onset diagnosis at the age of 62 through the present day. Kim draws a candid picture of the ways her family reacted for better and worse, and how she, her father and two siblings educated themselves, tried to let go of shame and secrecy, made mistakes, and found unexpected humor and grace in the midst of suffering. Ultimately the bonds of family were strengthened, and Kim learned ways to love and accept the woman her mother became. With a moving foreword by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox, Where the Light Gets In is a heartwarming tribute to the often fragile yet unbreakable relationships we have with our mothers.
Analysis and Management of Animal Populations deals with the processes involved in making informed decisions about the management of animal populations. It covers the modeling of population responses to management actions, the estimation of quantities needed in the modeling effort, and the application of these estimates and models to the development of sound management decisions. The book synthesizes and integrates in a single volume the methods associated with these themes, as they apply to ecological assessment and conservation of animal populations. Integrates population modeling, parameter estimation and decision-theoretic approaches to management in a single, cohesive framework Provides authoritative, state-of-the-art descriptions of quantitative approaches to modeling, estimation and decision-making Emphasizes the role of mathematical modeling in the conduct of science and management Utilizes a unifying biological context, consistent mathematical notation, and numerous biological examples
Nestled in the Berkshire Mountains in western Massachusetts, Williams College routinely ranks atop the best liberal arts colleges in the United States. The 450-acre campus, master-planned by the esteemed Olmsted Brothers, is home to 2,000 students and 100 academic and residential buildings, some dating back to the late 18th century. This beautifully written and illustrated portrait showcases many fine examples of American campus architecture by Cram Goodhue & Ferguson; Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson & Abbot; Stanford White; Mitchell-Giurgola; Tadao Ando; Cambridge Seven; Bohlin Cywinski Jackson; Einhorn, Yaffee, Prescott; and Polshek Partners. Williams College: The Campus Guide, with newly commissioned color photography and axonometric color maps to engage visitors, students, and alumni, is the newest edition to the acclaimed Campus Guide series of American colleges and universities.
This textbook serves as a guide to design and evaluate evidence-based programs intended to prevent or counter violent extremism (P/CVE). Violent extremism and related hate crimes are problems which confront societies in virtually every region of the world; this text examines how we can prevent or counter violent extremism using a systematic, evidence-based approach. The book, equal parts theoretical, methodological and applied, represents the first science-based guide for understanding “what makes hate,” and how to design and evaluate programs intended to prevent this. Though designed to serve as a primary course textbook, the work can readily serve as a how-to guide for self-study, given its abundant links to freely available online toolkits and templates. As such, it is designed to inform both students and practitioners alike with respect to the management, design, or evaluation of programs intended to prevent or counter violent extremism. Written by a leading social scientist in the field of P/CVE program evaluation, this book is rich in both scientific rigor and examples from the “real world” of research and evaluation dedicated to P/CVE. This book will be essential reading for students of terrorism, preventing or countering violent extremism, political violence, and deradicalization, and highly recommended for students of criminal justice, criminology, and behavioural psychology.
This technical note and manual (TNM) addresses the following main issues: Interaction between treasury cash management and monetary policy operations within the wider context of the respective economic responsibilities of the ministry of finance and the central bank; Institutional arrangements for an effective relationship between the treasury and the central bank; Contractual arrangements between the treasury and the central bank for the provision of banking and other services. This document will be particularly relevant to developing countries that are reforming cash management operations or contemplating more active cash management; or where there are operational policy differences between the treasury and the central bank.
Diverse perspectives on Lincoln’s assassination, its aftermath, and its place in national memory from some of today’s leading Lincoln scholars. The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln remains one of the most significant events in US history. It continues to attract the interest of scholars, writers, and armchair historians, ranging from painstaking new research to wild-eyed speculation. Now leading scholars of Lincoln and his murder offer in one volume their most salient studies and arguments about the assassination, its aftermath, the extraordinary—and complicated—public reaction, and the iconography that Lincoln’s murder and deification inspired. Contributors also offer the latest accounts of the pursuit, prosecution, and punishment of the conspirators. Everything from graphic tributes to religious sermons, to spontaneous outbursts on the nation’s city streets, to emotional mass-mourning at carefully organized funerals, as well as the imposition of military jurisprudence to try the conspirators, is examined in the light of fresh evidence and insightful analysis. Contributing to this volume are some of the finest scholars specializing in Lincoln’s assassination. All have earned well-deserved reputations for the quality of their research, their originality, and their writing. In addition to the editors, contributors include Thomas R. Turner, Edward Steers Jr., Michael W. Kauffman, Thomas P. Lowry, Richard E. Sloan, Elizabeth D. Leonard, and Richard Nelson Current.
Post-Soviet Russia in the 1990s saw a surge in civic participation. The traditional power structure officially relinquished control of political rhetoric and a nascent civil society had begun to emerge. Free elections and political partisanship between reformist and conservative elements of Russian society, spurred on by Russia’s economic troubles, gave a “Wild West” tenor to public rhetoric that was reflected in the election campaigns of 1993, 1995, and 1996. In this volume, the authors examine, through a series of contemporaneously written essays, the arc of government rhetoric during the height of media freedom, the quest for a new national identity, and the struggle for self-government.
Founded and rooted in Enlightenment values, the United States is caught between two conflicting imperatives when it comes to war: achieving perfect security through the annihilation of threats; and a requirement to conduct itself in a liberal and humane manner. In order to reconcile these often clashing requirements, the US has often turned to its scientists and laboratories to find strategies and weapons that are both decisive and humane. In effect, a modern faith in science and technology to overcome life's problems has been utilized to create a distinctly 'American Way of Warfare'. Carvin and Williams provide a framework to understand the successes and failures of the US in the wars it has fought since the days of the early Republic through to the War on Terror. It is the first book of its kind to combine a study of technology, law and liberalism in American warfare.
Over the last four decades the public trust in government in the United States has fallen dramatically due to a 'perfect storm' of contributing factors, such as a seemingly never ending string of political scandals, partisan polarization and toxic attack politics, and miserable failures to respond to natural disasters or the devastation of the Great Recession. This book contains the academic presentations that were made at the Symposium on Advancing Excellence and Public Trust in Government that was held at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. on September 17, 2007. In particular, the Symposium focused upon how improving transparency in governmental operations could be used to assuage some of the popular doubts about and hostility toward America's governments. There was certainly a very broad consensus at the Symposium that transparency in government is extremely desirable, needs to be improved, will bring reform and improvement to the public sector, and should make a major contribution to the restoration of the public trust in the United States. Indeed, support for improved transparency can be found across the political spectrum, as both conservatives and liberals believe that more openness in government will promote parts of their very different policy agendas. Truly, transparency appears to be an all-American issue. The discussion at the Symposium revolved around three broad themes. The first concerned transparency about government operations per se, such as how decisions were made and what detailed budgets are. A second and somewhat broader theme concerned greater transparency of 'performance measures' which tell us what the effects of specific policies are and how effective or efficient government agencies are. Third and even more broadly, some of the participants argued that general questions of governance provide the key for a renewal of public trust among our citizenry. This book of presentations at the Symposium is organized into four parts based on this distinction. Part I contains two challenges to America to restore the public trust. Parts II to IV then cover transparency, performance measures, and broader issues about general governance.
This inaugural volume in the Graphic Medicine series establishes the principles of graphic medicine and begins to map the field. The volume combines scholarly essays by members of the editorial team with previously unpublished visual narratives by Ian Williams and MK Czerwiec, and it includes arresting visual work from a wide range of graphic medicine practitioners. The book’s first section, featuring essays by Scott Smith and Susan Squier, argues that as a new area of scholarship, research on graphic medicine has the potential to challenge the conventional boundaries of academic disciplines, raise questions about their foundations, and reinvigorate literary scholarship—and the notion of the literary text—for a broader audience. The second section, incorporating essays by Michael Green and Kimberly Myers, demonstrates that graphic medicine narratives can engage members of the health professions with literary and visual representations and symbolic practices that offer patients, family members, physicians, and other caregivers new ways to experience and work with the complex challenges of the medical experience. The final section, by Ian Williams and MK Czerwiec, focuses on the practice of creating graphic narratives, iconography, drawing as a social practice, and the nature of comics as visual rhetoric. A conclusion (in comics form) testifies to the diverse and growing graphic medicine community. Two valuable bibliographies guide readers to comics and scholarly works relevant to the field.
It is said that prevention is better than cure and this is esspecially true with regard to cancer, ask anyone that has undergone radio-therapy or chemo-therapy. The advice contained within this publication should at least reduce the chances of you falling victim to cancer. It is a fact that there are foods now contain carcenogens. We are exposed to an increasing risk of cancer through our lifestyles and environments so anything that can reduce our risks should be taken full advantage of. Also by purchasing this book you will be helping people that have already been effected by or are suffering with cancer. Proceeds from the sale of this publication will be donated to MacMillan cancer support charity. So you can help yourself and others t the same time.
Have you ever heard these lyrics to the old Christian hymn... "I'm a soldier, in the Army of the Lord" Ever wondered what that means? Or who this army is that's being referred to? Or just what this army is all about? Do you Battle with cycles and recurrences in your life that seem to have some strategy or to be part of a bigger plan? You are about to embark on a journey that will open up God's Heavenly Army in such a way that it will reveal a blueprint or template for God's earthly Army which is operating in the Kingdom of God today. Take this journey with us and witness the unveiling of the parallel between today's natural military and the unseen Spiritual Military. God has poured out revelation about spiritual warfare so that we can prepare for what is to come. Paul pointed us in the right direction when he revealed the armor of God...now let's put on that armor and take our positions in the End-Time Battle of the Ages. Joel 2:11 And the Lord shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the Lord is very great and terrible; and who can abide it?
It was a time when personal exploration was a way of life a time when it was still okay to hitchhike, grow your hair long, and be carefree. But during the 1970s and early 1980s, it still was not okay to be gay.In Complex, the first of the two plays presented in Baby Crib, author Michael J.-P. Williams introduces Mickey, a man haunted by guilt and a dark secret. Just as a new consciousness is lighting the way for those who wish to escape the closet, artist wannabe Mickey is battling internal demons. Ashamed that he is homosexual and even more ashamed that he is still alive after his twin brother dies from cancer, Mickey must struggle to accept himself and his desires.In the second play, I Ski Maybell, Paul West is on the road to success. With a newly acquired MBA in hand and a good job in a new city, Paul's fresh start in life suddenly goes awry when he allies himself with Nova McWorth. Unfortunately, she is his boss.Williams interweaves multifaceted characters within poignant storylines that prove that perhaps life really is too short to worry about what we cannot control.
This is the Second Edition of the "Law of Attraction and the Subconscious Mind" a truly life changing Self-Help Book. In the Second Edition Dr. Williams has added additional information including 3 more techniques to help individuals gain more of what they want in life. The First edition changed so many people's lives for the better that Dr. Williams was compelled to write a Second Edition. What Dr. Williams discovered through his research on the "Law of Attraction" is the true SECRET nearly every other author on the subject have left out or didn't understand. The real SECRET and the KEY to the "Law of Attraction is the Subconscious Mind. Dr. Williams explains how to get your desire from the conscious mind to the subconscious mind and break through the conscious mind filter and be able to obtain what and individual desires in life. Dr. Williams has been performing research into the "Law of Attraction for several years now and the techniques he has provided in this book, if applied correctly, will change your life. The following is two testimonials from people who have had their lives change for the better. Lori from Washington, I have read several other books on the Law of Attraction but could not get the Attraction principles to do much of anything in my life. I was wondering what I was doing wrong. Then I purchased Dr. Williams book and found out what was really going on. Once I understood how the "Law of Attraction" worked I was able to apply the techniques in Dr. Williams's book and it was as if a new world opened to me. Needless to say I started attracting more than I could have ever imagined. Thank you Dr. Williams for changing my life for the better. Thomas from Ohio, Dr. Williams I am writing you to let you know that your book really changed my life for the better. I was always skeptical about the Law of Attraction and thought is was a bunch of malarkey, but a friend of mine gave me a copy of your book, and thank God it was not one of those 400 page books that take forever to read, so I took a shoot and read it. Well now! Once I understood how the "Law of Attraction" worked through Dr. Williams down to earth explanations of the subject matter I was able to understand and apply the techniques in the book. My entire life change for the better and I got the promotion I was going for, the car I wanted and much more. I would tell everyone to buy a copy of this book. Thank you Dr. Williams for helping make my life better and the people around me lives better also.
QUICK START WITH PROJECT MAMAGEMENT The Project management field is forever growing and expanding, and finding a book without all the technical in-depth jargon, for the beginner in Project Management does not seem to be out there. So I took it upon myself, for that very reason, to write a "Quick Start with Project Management" book. I wish a book like this existed when I was learning to be Project Manager. This book goes directly to the point without all the fluff of a 500 page Project Management book. You will, in time, need books like that as you grow in you knowledge of Project Management. So I hope this book gives you the beginning insight you need to be successful as a Project Manager. This book Covers What is Project Management ? Defining a Project and the Triple Constraint Project Initiation Project Scope & Scope Management Project Integration Management Project Risk Management Project Time Management Project Execution & Closing Project Methodologies
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