One Way 2 Play! Game Plan for Athletes is a set of 13 character studies that will help mold you into a champion for life. It is designed for both individual and group study. Though the entire set gives you an intense workout in the area of character development, the individual sections are not dependent on one another and can stand alone.
Team Studies: Undefeated is the second book in the Team Character Series written by Rod Handley and Gordon Thiessen. Strong teams all have one key ingredient in common: character. Features 16 key character studies to use throughout the season as a discussion guide on how to build a championship team. The purpose of this book is to identify character qualities that will make a winning difference in your life and on your team. Make it your plan to examine at lease one character quality each week as an individual and with your teammates. Here are the 16 character qualities in this study: humility, truth, love, faith, alertness, flexibility, indignation initiative, justice, leadership, loyalty, persuasiveness, punctuality, responsibility, thoroughness and transparency.
Team Studies: Gamechanger is the first book in the Team Character Series written by Rod Handley and Gordon Thiessen. Strong teams all have one key ingredient in common: character. Team Studies: Gamechanger features 16 key character studies to use throughout the season as a discussion guide on how to build a championship team. The purpose of this book is to identify character qualities that will make a winning difference in your life and on your team. Make it your plan to examine at least one character quality each week as an individual and with your teammates. Here are the 16 character qualities in this study: Brotherliness, candor, courage, firmness, gladness, greatness, holiness, narrowness, optimism, originality, poise, reasonableness, reverence, sincerity, strength and trust.
There's a lot of talk these days about accountability groups and small group Bible studies. But do you know how to lead one? Do you know what questions to ask your accountability partner? This book gives 10 questions that can help you develop relationships built on accountability and trust. It's a practical tool for men and women who desire to be people of character and integrity.
There's a lot of talk these days about accountability groups and small group Bible studies. But do you know how to lead one? Do you know what questions to ask your accountability partner? This book gives 10 questions that can help you develop relationships built on accountability and trust. It's a practical tool for men and women who desire to be people of character and integrity.
Based upon the bestselling book this Bible Study helps individuals or groups understand and apply accountability to their lives. It's a practical tool with many helpful Bible Study tips and questions. This book will help the reader or group develop relationships built on accountability and trust.
We have a major problem in our society-a lack of character. Does character count? We say a resounding "Yes"-it does matter! We propose that character does count and that society is finally placing a higher premium on character. The purpose of this book is to identify character qualities that will make a winning difference in your life and on your team. Make it your plan to examine at least one character quality each week as an individual and with your teammates. If you are leading a group, this is a great resource to create an environment where you can freely exchange thoughts and ideas about how your character counts!
Strong teams all have one key ingredient in common : character. The purpose of this book is to identify character qualities that will make a winning difference in your life and on your team. It features 16 key character studies to use throughout the season as a discussion guide on how to build a championship team. --From publisher's description.
Building Leadership Character is the coach's version of the Kingdom Sports leadership building character series. This bible study series is designed to help coaches at every level integrate their faith with their sport. This character series for coaches will show coaches how to have the right attitudes and behavior in sports. Lessons include: Loyalty Guarding the Heart Purposeful Confidence Poise There are a total of 12 lessons per book and three books within the series. There's also an athletes version as well.
The battle of Gettysburg was the largest engagement of the Civil War, and--with more than 51,000 casualties--also the deadliest. The highest regimental casualty rate at Gettysburg, an estimated 85 percent, was incurred by the 26th North Carolina Infantry. Who were these North Carolinians? Why were they at Gettysburg? How did they come to suffer such a grievous distinction? In Covered with Glory, award-winning historian Rod Gragg reveals the extraordinary story of the 26th North Carolina in fascinating detail. Praised for its "exhaustive scholarship" and its "highly readable style," Covered with Glory chronicles the 26th's remarkable odyssey from muster near Raleigh to surrender at Appomattox. The central focus of the book, however, is the regiment's critical, tragic role at Gettysburg, where its standoff with the heralded 24th Michigan Infantry on the first day of fighting became one of the battle's most unforgettable stories. Two days later, the 26th's bloodied remnant assaulted the Federal line at Cemetery Ridge and gained additional fame for advancing "farthest to the front" in the Pickett-Pettigrew Charge.
Western conceptions of objectivity and individuality have resulted in a readier appreciation of the worth of the animals and nature than has been recognized. This provocative book takes issue with the popular view that the Western cultural tradition, in contrast to Eastern and Aboriginal traditions, has encouraged attitudes of domination and exploitation towards nature, particularly animals. Preece argues that the Western tradition has much to commend it, and that descriptions of Aboriginal and Oriental orientations have often been misleadingly rosy, simplified and codified according to current fashionable concepts. Animals and Nature is the result of six years' intensive study into comparative religion, literature, philosophy, anthropology, mythology and animal welfare science.
Fifty Years of Flying Fun covers, in a roughly chronological order, over fifty continuous years of flying. This ranges from joining the RAF in 1962, through his intriguing first operational tour on Hunters in Aden, the early days of the Jaguar in Germany and, finally in the RAF, an almost outrageous two years flying the Jaguar and Hunter with the Sultan of OmanÕs Air Force. His subsequent civil flying has been exclusively in the General Aviation and flying display fields as a flying instructor and well known display pilot, including being involved in many varied and interesting display-related episodes. With in excess of 7,000 flying hours on 59 different types Ð and only one aircraft (Spencer FlackÕs Mustang) with a working autopilot Ð Rod gives a clear, and largely humorous, insight into the operation of a cross section of piston and jet engine vintage aircraft and his undoubted fifty years of fun since the first solo on 19 March 1963. Fifty Years of Flying Fun is not just a book for the aviation enthusiast, but for anyone wanting to learn about any aspect of flying history through the memoir of a man who lived through it all.
One of the longest-lived communal societies in North America, the Hutterites have developed multifaceted communitarian perspectives on everything from conflict resolution and decision-making practices to standards of living and care for the elderly. This compellingly written book offers a glimpse into the complex and varied lives of the nearly 500 North American Hutterite communities. North American Hutterites today number around 50,000 and have common roots with and beliefs akin to the Amish and other Old Order Christians. This historical analysis and anthropological investigation draws on existing research, primary sources, and over 25 years of the authors' interaction with Hutterite communities to recount the group's physical and spiritual journey from its 16th-century founding in Eastern Europe and its near disappearance in Transylvania in the 1760s to its late 19th-century transplantation to North America and into the modern era. It explains how the Hutterites found creative ways to manage social and economic changes over more than five centuries while holding to the principles and cultural values embedded in their faith. Religious scholars, anthropologists, and historians of America and the Anabaptist faiths will find this objective-yet-appreciative account of the Hutterites' distinct North American culture to be a valuable and fascinating study both of the religion and of a viable alternative to modern-day capitalism.
There's a lot of talk these days about accountability groups and small group Bible studies. But do you know how to lead one? Do you know what questions to ask your accountability partner? This book gives 10 questions that can help you develop relationships built on accountability and trust. It's a practical tool for men and women who desire to be people of character and integrity.
As the most populous province in Canada, Ontario is a microcosm of the animal welfare issues which beset Western civilization. The authors of this book, chairman and vice-chairman, respectively, of the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, find themselves constantly being made aware of the atrocities committed in the Society’s jurisdiction. They have been, in turn, puzzled, exasperated and horrified at humanity’s cruelty to our fellow sentient beings. The issues discussed in this book are the most contentious in animal welfare disputes — animal experimentation, fur-farming and trapping, the use of animals for human entertainment and the conditions under which animals are raised for human consumption. They are complex issues and should be thought about fairly and seriously. The authors, standing squarely on the side of the animals, suggest “community” and “belonging” as concepts through which to understand our relationships to other species. They ground their ideas in Wordsworth’s “primal sympathy” and Jung’s “unconscious identity” with the animal realm. The philosophy developed in this book embraces common sense and compromise as the surest paths to the goal of animal welfare. It requires respect and consideration for other species while acknowledging our primary obligations to our fellow humans.
Describes the reasons for trench warfare in the First World War, depicts the attempts to develop new strategies, and discusses the impact of the machine gun
One of the phrases that has been used to describe Chicago's Southeast Side is "smokestacks and steeples." The community initially developed because of the steel industry, but it has been affected by the decline of the American steel industry in recent years. Today, the people of South Chicago, South Deering, the East Side, and Hegewisch look to the future. The community is, in many respects, at a crossroads. Will economic redevelopment occur, and if it does, at what price? Will the ecology and environment, damaged by years of abuse and neglect, be restored and protected? This second book about the region tells the story of this interesting and vibrant Chicago community from a chronological approach. It looks at important themes of American history from the perspective of this urban, working-class community. Industrialization, urbanization, unionization, immigration, and Americanization were themes that played out on the Southeast Side of Chicago. It examines how the community dealt with problems like depression, wars, pollution, and the decline of heavy industry-especially the steel industry.
A comprehensive insight into the valuable work carried out by one of the Council of Europe’s highly influential mechanisms, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT). Since its inception in 1989, specialist members of the CPT (lawyers, prosecutors, prison experts, doctors, psychiatrists, etc.) have visited thousands of police stations, prisons, immigration detention centres, psychiatric hospitals and other places of detention all over Europe, to monitor the living conditions (hygiene, provision of food and drink, health care, etc.) of those being detained. Following these visits, the CPT issues reports suggesting improvements and laying down standards. The purpose of this book is twofold. In the first part, the authors explain the background and origins of the CPT, its membership and modus operandi, as well as how it interacts with other bodies, such as the UN’s Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) and the national preventive mechanisms (NPMs). In the second part, the authors describe the CPT’s key findings and standards in the main situations of deprivation of liberty (police, prison, immigration detention, mental health and social care). In a detailed appendix, the authors provide summaries of the key CPT findings for the 47 states visited by the CPT.
Papers presented at the ASTM Symposium on Multiaxial Fatigue, held in San Diego, November 1991, to communicate the most recent international advances in multiaxial cyclic deformation and fatigue research as well as applications to component analysis and design. The 24 papers are grouped into five ca
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