Oh no, not another self-help book! But wait, USC alumnus and celebrity life coach Paul Edward dubs his new work, Moving Forward: Turning Good Intentions Into Great Results by Discovering Yourself, Your Place, & Your Path, an "others-help" book and insists that one of the keys to moving forward in life is connecting with the right people. In the first volume of his new Life-Changing Coaching Series, Edward shares the five strategies he uses to help his influential clients solve problems, make better decisions, achieve goals, and get connected. Drawing on his rich experiences as a US Marine Corps officer, corporate executive, and professional life coach, Edward's book leads the reader on a journey that begins with self-discovery and culminates in the development and implementation of a plan for real change and sustained growth. Moving Forward does not just offer theory, but it tackles some of life's thornier practical issues, like how to successfully deal with challenging friends and family members, how to increase job satisfaction, and how to make more time for the people and activities you love. Moving Forward is a guide for those who find themselves stuck in one or more areas of their lives. Its pages brim with help and hope for anyone willing to follow the roadmap that Edward lays out for them.
This memoir of the experiences of a neurosurgery resident at a busy trauma center provides a rare window into the training of doctors who operate on patients' brains and spinal cords. Kaloostian's account describes the life-saving feats and tragic failures that are daily realities of twenty-first-century neurosurgery"--Provided by publisher.
My book is about my travels to different parts of the world and my helping the people of Honduras after Hurricane Mitch several years ago. I have driven alone to every state on the North American continentfrom Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to Puerto Cortes, Honduras, and from Labrador to Guatemala. I was the first American to ever receive a special permit to visit the closed cities of Sevastopol and Balaklava in Russia, home of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, and was made an honorary citizen of Sevastopol.
Advance praise for "e;HUMANS and other ANIMALS"e;"e;(Gainor)'s insights into the behavior of both humans and animals are philosophical and humorous .... I guarantee you will never look at a badger, or a cuiza, or a sandpiper in the same way ever again ..... An unforgettable emotional journey.... You will be rewarded with laughter, perhaps a tear or two, and an abundance of joy."e;-Susan Appleyard, author of historical fiction, including "e;In a Gilded Cage,"e; "e;Queen of Trial and Sorrow,"e; "e;The First Plantagenet,"e; "e;Dark Spirit: Ludwig II, the Mad King of Bavaria,"e; "e;The Remorseless Queen,"e; and "e;This Sun of York"e; "e;Poet Paul Edward Gainor touches upon those special moments that only a poet could describe with such simplicity and beauty. We have a connection to our world, our earth. In the end our human race is judged by our compassion for all living things.... A wonderful collection of tender moments. I was deeply moved."e;-Joylene Nowell Butler, award-winning author of psychological thrillers: "e;Dead Witness,"e; "e;Maski: Broken But Not Dead,"e; "e;Matowak: Woman Who Cries,"e; and "e;steampunk anthology, Break Time"e; "e;This book is the Porsche of poetry.... When a book ... causes a smile, has me laughing out loud and brings a tear to my eye, I'm hooked! 'HUMANs and other ANIMALS' is that book."e;-Brenda C. Hill, editor, writing coach and co-author of "e;SUCCESS: Your Path to a Successful Book"e; and "e;Cooking Secrets: The Why and How."e;
Between the reigns of Charlemagne and Charles the Fat, Europe underwent a series of alarming and unsettling changes. Civil war broke out, royal authority was divided, and the brightest of men and women began to entertain nightmarish thoughts of the corruption and collapse of their world. Amidst the ruin of their shaken and shattered assumptions, Carolingian intellectuals wrote down a series of dream texts. The Carolingian oneiric record, though dark with confusion and immoderate emotion, supplies us with a more subjective reading of this formative period of European history than the one found in standard histories. Carolingian dream-authors criticized and complained because they hoped to reform a royal society that had lost its way. This study begins by surveying the sleep of kings and the status of royal dreams from the classical period to the ninth century. Then it runs to an examination of individual dreams and the political disruption that informs them. The reader will encounter a variety of surprising dreams: of Charlemagne's lust, demons and archangels, a sorrowful prophet, disputed property and bullying saints, magical swords and mad princes, and Charles the Fat's journey through an awesome otherworld towards an uncertain constitutional future.
Few understand the life that physicians and surgeons lead. They communicate with people that have no where else to go for help. They are brought face to face with challenging medical conditions and are required to be at their best all the time in order to heal the sick and suffering. I often talk with friends who are not in medicine about my hours and cases and they always seem to be unaware, and often times uninterested, in what we do for a living. We have been given a tremendous responsibility to enter the lives of other human beings in order to learn more about their problems in an attempt to alter their current path of health. We have taken an oath to constantly learn and provide the best care possible. It is a true joy and challenge to do this. And so I wanted to share this trip with you all. Each poem stems from a separate surgical case that I have encountered in my training in New Mexico. Each tells a story and hopefully sheds some light on what we do on a daily basis. Please enjoy!
Everything is Smoke is a book of poetry unlike anything written in recent years. The author uses plain language to invoke the most powerful senses – passion, pride, humour, whimsy – he takes you from the deepest grief to the highest exaltation and all stops in between. He takes raw emotions and imagery drawn from his own life to bring you the strongest experience of yourself as a human being. A journey into this book is a journey into your own soul as each verse, each stanza, each individual poem will take you to the very extremes of your inner self. It is the job of the poet to take the triumphs and tragedies, the victories and mundanities that we all experience and can never adequately express, and frame them in such a way as to make the heart quicken. Throughout this book you will experience beauty in the ordinary, wonder in the everyday and be lifted having been filled with the intricate depth of your own life. You are invited dear reader to take these thoughts, these creations unto yourself and take from them all that you need to walk with renewed meaning and fulfilment.
In this trenchant challenge to social engineering, Paul Gottfried analyzes a patricide: the slaying of nineteenth-century liberalism by the managerial state. Paul Gottfried does more than analyze historical facts, however. He builds on them to show why it matters that the managerial state has replaced traditional liberalism: the new regimes of social engineers, he maintains, are elitists, and their rule is consensual only in the sense that it is unopposed by any widespread organized opposition. How can opponents of administrative elites show the public that those who provide, however ineptly, for their material needs are the enemies of democratic self-rule and of independent decision making in family life? If we do not wake up, Gottfried warns, the political debate may soon be over, despite sporadic and ideologically confused populist rumblings in both Europe and the United States.
The medical literature is enormous. It is filled with information that is growing as you are reading this sentence. Having entered the realm of medical school and residency, it is very difficult to gather and master the information that is most critical. After much review of current USMLE Board preparation texts, we have attempted to create a more concise and focused text that addresses the heart of the major issues that are not only commonly tested but also encountered as one is taking care of sick patients. We have put much thought and effort into providing a text that can be used by pre-medical and medical students, as well as physicians and those in all scientific fields. Our goal is to provide an avenue of knowledge that can be used to heal that which is most important to us: Our Patients! Enjoy!
This is a USMLE Step 2 Board Review Textbook written by three physicians currently in residency. They share insights into learning the immense material required to be a knowledgeable and dedicated physician.
Oh no, not another self-help book! But wait, USC alumnus and celebrity life coach Paul Edward dubs his new work, Moving Forward: Turning Good Intentions Into Great Results by Discovering Yourself, Your Place, & Your Path, an "others-help" book and insists that one of the keys to moving forward in life is connecting with the right people. In the first volume of his new Life-Changing Coaching Series, Edward shares the five strategies he uses to help his influential clients solve problems, make better decisions, achieve goals, and get connected. Drawing on his rich experiences as a US Marine Corps officer, corporate executive, and professional life coach, Edward's book leads the reader on a journey that begins with self-discovery and culminates in the development and implementation of a plan for real change and sustained growth. Moving Forward does not just offer theory, but it tackles some of life's thornier practical issues, like how to successfully deal with challenging friends and family members, how to increase job satisfaction, and how to make more time for the people and activities you love. Moving Forward is a guide for those who find themselves stuck in one or more areas of their lives. Its pages brim with help and hope for anyone willing to follow the roadmap that Edward lays out for them.
This is Paul King's life story from his beginning to his life now. He will share with you his trials and tribulations along the way from his life as a child to becoming a man. Paul was the third youngest of ten children. His father worked in a coal mine and his family moved to Ohio in nineteen fifty from Tennessee. When Paul was five years of age his father passed away leaving his mother whom was in poor health to raise eight children alone. In his story you will you will find a compelling tale of one youth's struggle against all odds and the personal scars that he wore as a child that stayed with him into adulthood. Along the way in his life's journey Paul will share with you the most personal aspects of his life and the beliefs that he holds closest to his heart. He will also share with you his memories, and what he believes that made him strong enough to carry on when it seemed all hope was lost. You will be moved with warmth and compassion as you read his story from a child to a man.
What does Christianity have to do with anything? What does the Christian faith teach about God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit? With these and other core questions, bestselling author Paul Little explains ten bottom-line truths of Christianity to help you understand what God has done to bring us into a relationship with him through Jesus Christ.
A former Catholic priest considers the modern generation's priesthood, chronicling the dwindling numbers of priests and parishioners in post-1960s America and considering the reasons why some members of the cloth abused children or otherwise acted on their sexual feelings.
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