Shawn Green’s career statistics can be found on the backs of baseball cards in shoe boxes across America: 328 home runs, 1,071 RBIs, .282 career batting average, All-Star, Gold Glove, Silver Slugger. . . . But numbers tell only part of the story. His path to success was as grounded in philosophical study as in ballpark wisdom. Striving to find stillness within the rip-roaring scene of Major League Baseball—from screaming fans to national scandals— Green learned to approach the sport with a clear mind. In the tradition of Phil Jackson’s Sacred Hoops, Green shares the secrets to remaining focused both on and off the field, shedding light on a signature approach to living by using his remarkable baseball experiences to exemplify how one can find full awareness, presence, and, ultimately, fulfillment in any endeavor. Following his development from inconsistent rookie to established All-Star to aging veteran, The Way of Baseball illustrates the spiritual practices that enabled him to “bring stillness into the flow of life.” Requiring mastery of perspective and continual management of ego, the game of baseball afforded Green the opportunity to explore his potential as more than just a ballplayer. A treasure of practical wisdom and an intimate look at what it really means to “let go,” The Way of Baseball illuminates the creative possibilities within us all.
In my heart, I have been so devastated in this season by the COVID-19 pandemic. It has wreaked havoc in the lives of so many people, in the lives of believers and nonbelievers. We are at a crossroads where our home has literally become our sanctuaries and our bodies are temples of the Most High God. We have been removed from the church buildings, we have been removed from the stadiums, and we have been removed from the casinos. God has literally cut us off from the things that were separating us from His glory. What Satan meant for bad, God turned it into good. If truth be told, we would look at the situation and think that Satan was the one trying to amputate us literally and cut us off from one another. God said in 2 Chronicles 13, "If I shut up heaven and hold back the rain and command the locusts to come in and command pestilence, then if my people which are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and turn from their wicked ways will they hear from heaven and I will heal their land." We are in a time when God has literally sent us home to shut the door and wait for the wrath to pass, put the blood on the doorposts, and let the death angel pass by. I plead the blood of Jesus, the blood that covers us, the blood that protects us, the blood that He SHED for us, the blood that destroys sin, the blood that kills the python spirit, the blood that kills the Jezebel spirit, the blood that destroys evil, demons, and the devil, that blood that never loses power, the life-saving blood of Jesus. Everyone, keep your hands clean and hearts pure. The flesh will never be righteous, but the houses can be clean, free of evil spirits. We are the children of the Most High God.
The book titled Maximum Selling: Bob and Robs Journey to Sales Success is an outstanding book for developing and strengthening your selling skills immediately. There are two key advantages why this book is an absolutely necessity for anyone that wants more sales and for those who manage people who want more sales. First, the book addresses each aspect of the sales process in the exact progression that will maximize your opportunity to win and keep new business. Secondly, the book is written in a story format about two salespeople who want to sell more, a great deal more, but do not know how. Bob and Rob take the sales journey that will ensure their success for a lifetime. The book is funny, easy to read, and the tools you will learn can be used the moment you put the book down, which of course you will not want to until you finish the last page (with its own unique ending). Maximum Selling will literally put in your hands the tools and specific techniques needed to accelerate you to your own maximum level of sales performance that you truly are capable of achieving. Find out how Bob and Rob take the journey of examining their own confidence levels and learn how to self manage the behaviors that will lead to their own success. Discover a goal setting method that will blow the doors off of anything you have seen before. Realize how to effectively prospect, uncover hidden needs of the buyer, and present superior selling solutions. Negotiate through objections and gain commitment with greater ease than you thought you could obtain. These are just some of the insights you will gain by reading this one of a kind book. Here is what Brian Tracy, one of the worlds most renowned sales development and motivational specialists and author of Focal Point, Advanced Selling Strategies, and Maximum Achievement, had to say about Maximum Selling: Bob and Robs Journey to Sales Success: This book gives you a step-by-step process you can apply immediately to make more sales, faster, and easier than you ever imagined possible. Make the investment in yourself, buy and read Maximum Selling: Bob and Robs Journey to Sales Success. Your pocket book will thank you.
Beginning with the legacy of Roger Williams, who in 1633 founded the first colony not restricted to people of one faith, The Lively Experiment chronicles how Americans have continually demolished traditional prejudices while at the same time erecting new walls between belief systems. The chapters gathered here reveal how Americans are sensitively attuned to irony and contradiction, to unanticipated eruptions of bigotry and unheralded acts of decency, and to the disruption caused by new movements and the reassurance supplied by old divisions. The authors examine the way ethnicity, race, and imperialism have been woven into the fabric of interreligious relations and highlight how currents of tolerance and intolerance have rippled in multiple directions. Nearly four hundred years after Roger Williams' Rhode Island colony, the "lively experiment" of religious tolerance remains a core tenet of the American way of life. This volume honors this boisterous tradition by offering the first comprehensive account of America’s vibrant and often tumultuous history of interreligious relations.
The Green Book: For Black Folks in Education is a nonfiction book written for parents and educators to examine best practices for supporting Black children in schools. Dr. Brown addresses topics such as parenting, high expectations, unconscious bias, community, culture, and navigating the traditional American educational system. This book provides a professional and personal lens to view the experiences of Black children in schools.
Henry "Hank" Toohey, a thirteen-year-old altar boy, is an incessant smart-ass with a deep love of life...and other four-letter words. But with his foul mouth comes a heart of gold, and he's going to need it to get through the last weekend of summer 1984. Everyone up and down St. Patrick Street, Henry's claustrophobic Irish-Catholic block in Philadelphia -- with its seventy-eight row homes, seventy-eight skinny mile-high lawns, seventy-eight statues of saints, and seventy-eight Mondale-Ferraro signs -- knows that the Toohey family is falling apart. Henry's mailman father is having an affair with a neighbor lady right under his mother's nose. His big brother has been a drunken mess since his girlfriend died. And his little sister is counting on him to keep her laughing through it all. But Henry has a plan to pull the family back together: He'll propose to his chain-smoking fourteen-year-old girlfriend, Grace McClain, at a neighborhood wedding. To prepare, he and his ragtag group of friends pinball around the streets, making elaborate plans for his proposal, riding bikes, rating breasts, bothering the local merchants, talking trash about Mike Schmidt and Bob Seger, and kissing behind the seafood-store dumpster. Gritty, giddy, and bursting with Henry's boundless energy, Green Grass Grace is a heart-thumping rocket ride back to adolescence that is riotously funny and tragic at the same time.
In the city of Potstow, there sleeps a direful secret dying to be let loose. There’s a new self-sustaining city growing quickly within the Rocky Mountains. The local rags dubbed it the Town Pot Built, but with all the economic growth, there lies a crushing weight on the companies that don’t comply. One annexed business owner unraveling at the seams is trying to hold on to the things that truly matter, but at what cost? Meet Stan Greene. He’s a dick—or used to be. He was once a rising star among the ranks of detective in the nation’s capital, now just a lowly private investigator lost in the abyss of his growing middle age, traipsing in the reveries of lost love, his constant variable inflicting within his chagrin life. In a twisting plot lead by the lofty narrator, Stan finds himself shrouded in the mystery of a highly publicized murder. With the arrival of his new neighbors and a hopeful sidekick, Stan may very well take his newfound home by storm and become “Potstow’s best investigator.”
Shante's afraid of life because she never lived a normal one. What she has learned from life came from neglect and abuse. John, Shante's husband is an abusive man that beats her. Shante tries unsuccessfully to take her own life, but failing she decides to run to be free and for her life. Shante reached out to David for the love she never had, a hopeless dream. Though David's in with love Shante, he ended their affair to stay with Monica, a woman he lives with. Monica's holding on to David with the threat of suicide and ending their baby's life. Vera's, David's sister becomes Shante's good friend. She wanted Shante and David to be together. She stands by Shante even after the affair ends. Vera has been in Shante's shoes and has broken away from being abused. When love comes to Shante once again, she blinds herself to it denying any real feeling she has for Kevin and to her self. Kevin has been falling in love with her from their first meeting. He gave up his way of life for Shante. He kept and lived with her secret. Shante finally realizes that she's in love with Kevin. Shante finally stops running.
A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer—to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day. "An extraordinary gathering of men—diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions—have convened in this collection to offer contemporary, compelling and personal prayers. The words published here are not the recitation of established liturgies, but the direct address of today's Jewish men to ha-Shomea Tefilla, the Ancient One who has always heard, and who remains eager to receive, the prayers of our hearts." —from the Foreword by Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, DHL This collection of prayers celebrates the variety of ways Jewish men engage in personal dialogue with God—with words of praise, petition, joy, gratitude, wonder and even anger—from the ancient world up to our own day. Drawn from mystical, traditional, biblical, Talmudic, Hasidic and modern sources, these prayers will help you deepen your relationship with God and help guide your journey of self-discovery, healing and spiritual awareness. Together they provide a powerful and creative expression of Jewish men’s inner lives, and the always revealing, sometimes painful, sometimes joyous—and often even practical—practice that prayer can be. Jewish Men Pray will challenge your preconceived ideas about prayer. It will inspire you to explore new ways of prayerful expression, new paths for finding the sacred in the ordinary and new possibilities for understanding the Jewish relationship with the Divine. This is a book to treasure and to share.
Building on comprehensive research conducted in US schools, this accessible volume offers an effective model of school leadership to develop and implement school-wide, trauma-responsive approaches to student discipline. Recognizing that challenging student behaviours are often rooted in early experiences of trauma, the volume builds on a model from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to walk readers through the processes of realizing, recognizing, responding to, and resisting the impacts of trauma in school contexts. Research and interviews model an educational reform process and explain how a range of differentiated interventions including Positive Behaviour Interventions and Supports (PBIS), social-emotional learning (SEL), restorative justice, and family engagement can be used to boost student resilience and pro-social behaviour. Practical steps are supported by current theory, resources, and stories of implementation from superintendents, principals, and teachers. This text will benefit school leaders, teachers, and counsellors with an interest in restorative student discipline, emotional and behavioural difficulties in young people, and PreK-12 education more broadly. Those interested in school psychology, trauma studies, and trauma counselling with children and adolescents will also benefit from the volume.
The Kids' Comic Con was created to bring young people, parents, and educators together with talented artists for an insider's look at the world of comics and cartoons. Patrons can meet the artists, find great books, take workshops, and more. They even learn how comics can be entertaining and educational. But mostly, we want them to have fun, and naturally that's what our first published comic anthology is all about – Fun! So enjoy this book. It's a collection of good stories, created by talented people who remember how fun looks and feels – but most … how to share it with children.
-- A MUST READ FOR THOSE FASCINATED BY THE SUPERNATURAL, THE OCCULT, THE PARANORMAL . . . Here are America's earliest and most frightening tales of the unexplained -- with a new overview of the scariest poltergeist case of all time -- THE BELL WITCH! You've seen the various Hollywood horror movie variations of this horrifying American poltergeist case -- but these cinematic efforts have never done justice to what really happened in Tennessee back in 1817 that created mass hysteria and even caused a soon to be president -- General Andrew Jackson -- to feel the wrath of this horrid specter from beyond the grave. The Bells were an upright farming family said to have incurred the ire of one Kate Batts who put a deathbed curse on the Bells that defies all rational understanding. REVEALED IN THIS VOLUME! ** -- Super psychic Shawn Robbins, a protege of the late ghost hunter, Dr Hans Holzer, was able to "revisit" the scene of the Bell Witch haunting and gain new insight into the nearly two hundred years old curse. ** -- The highly respected paranormal researcher, Paul Eno (host of Behind The Paranormal), recounts stories of vampires in New England in the 18th and 19th centuries and also tells the little-known story of an invasion of demonic specter "hooligans." ** -- Journey with Tim Beckley to the historically haunted locales of Jerome, Arizona, and Sleepy Hollow, New York, where ghostly spirits and disembodied voices seem to have established a haven and interact frequently with visitors. ** -- Acclaimed writer Sean Casteel contributes accounts of phantoms and monsters as well as a synopsis of a case of demonic possession that occurred in another New England clergyman's home some 20 years before the trials in Salem made everyone vulnerable to the charge. Also, read about the lesser known Salem witch trial of 1878 in which one Christian Scientist sued another over the "mind crime" of Malicious Animal Magnetism. And let us not forget the stories of swamp women -- flying creatures -- and specters and phantoms and things that go bump in the night and continue to scare us all to this very day.
Exploring a paradox, Shawn Bingham and Sara Green show how humor has been used both to challenge traditional views of disability and to reinforce negative stereotypes and social inequalities. Seriously Funny ranges from ancient Greek dramas to medieval courts jesters to contemporary comedy, from stage performances to the experiences of daily life. Rich with insights into issues of identity and social stratification, it offers an eye-opening perspective on attitudes toward disability across the ages.
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