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The Practicing Mind

Developing Focus and Discipline in Your Life Master Any Skill or Challenge by Learning to Love the Process

By: Thomas M. Sterner

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The Practicing Mind

Developing Focus and Discipline in Your Life Master Any Skill or Challenge by Learning to Love the Process

By: Thomas M. Sterner

In those times when we want to acquire a new skill or face a formidable challenge we hope to overcome, what we need most are patience, focus, and discipline, traits that seem elusive or difficult to maintain. In this enticing and practical book, Thomas Sterner demonstrates how to learn skills for any aspect of life, from golfing to business to parenting, by learning to love the process. Early life is all about trial-and-error practice. If we had given up in the face of failure, repetition, and difficulty, we would never have learned to walk or tie our shoes. So why, as adults, do we often give up on a goal when at first we don’t succeed? Modern life’s technological speed, habitual multitasking, and promises of instant gratification don’t help. But in his study of how we learn (prompted by his pursuit of disciplines such as music and golf), Sterner has found that we have also forgotten the principles of practice — the process of picking a goal and applying steady effort to reach it. The methods Sterner teaches show that practice done properly isn’t drudgery on the way to mastery but a fulfilling process in and of itself, one that builds discipline and clarity. By focusing on “process, not product,” you’ll learn to live in each moment, where you’ll find calmness and equanimity. This book will transform a sense of futility around learning something challenging into an attitude of pleasure and willingness.

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New World Library

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1608680916

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9781608680917

Leave No Man Behind

The Saga of Combat Search and Rescue

By: George Galdorisi,Thomas Phillips

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Leave No Man Behind

The Saga of Combat Search and Rescue

By: George Galdorisi,Thomas Phillips

Beginning with the birth of combat aircraft in World War I and the early attempts to rescue warriors trapped behind enemy lines, Leave No Man Behind chronicles in depth nearly one hundred years of combat search and rescue (CSAR). All major U.S. combat operations from World War II to the early years of the Iraq War are covered, including previously classified missions and several Medal-of-Honor-winning operations. Authors George Galdorisi and Tom Phillips (both veteran U.S. Navy helicopter pilots) highlight individual acts of heroism while telling the big-picture story of the creation and development of modern CSAR. Although individual missions have their successes and failures, CSAR, as an institution, would seem beyond reproach, an obvious necessity. The organizational history of CSAR, however, is not entirely positive. The armed services, particularly the U.S. Air Force and Navy, have a tendency to cut CSAR at the end of a conflict, leaving no infrastructure prepared for the next time that the brave men and women of our armed forces find themselves behind enemy lines. The final chapter has not yet been written for U.S. combat search and rescue, but in view of the life-saving potential of these forces, an open and forthright review of U.S. military CSAR plans and policies is long overdue. Beyond the exciting stories of heroic victories and heartrending defeats, Leave No Man Behind stimulates debate on this important subject.

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Zenith Press

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1616732253

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9781616732257

Policy Instruments for Environmental and Natural Resource Management

By: Thomas Sterner,Jessica Coria

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Policy Instruments for Environmental and Natural Resource Management

By: Thomas Sterner,Jessica Coria

Thomas Sterner's book is an attempt to encourage more widespread and careful use of economic policy instruments. The book compares the accumulated experiences of the use of economic policy instruments in the U.S. and Europe, as well as in rich and poor countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Ambitious in scope, it discusses the design of instruments that can be employed in any country in a wide range of contexts, including transportation, industrial pollution, water pricing, waste, fisheries, forests, and agriculture. While deeply rooted in economics, Policy Instruments for Environmental and Natural Resource Management is informed by political, legal, ecological, and psychological research. The new edition enhances what has already been widely hailed as a highly innovative work. The book includes greatly expanded coverage of climate change, covering aspects related to policy design, international equity and discounting, voluntary carbon markets, permit trading in United States, and the Clean Development Mechanism. Focusing ever more on leading ideas in both theory and policy, the new edition brings experimental economics into the main of its discussions. It features expanded coverage of the monitoring and enforcement of environmental policy, technological change, the choice of policy instruments under imperfect competition, and subjects such as corporate social responsibility, bio-fuels, payments for ecosystem services, and REDD.

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707

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Routledge

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1317703863

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9781317703860

Permanent Income, Wealth, and Consumption

By: Thomas Mayer

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Permanent Income, Wealth, and Consumption

By: Thomas Mayer

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.

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Univ of California Press

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0520337166

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9780520337169

American Arabists in the Cold War Middle East, 194675

From Orientalism to Professionalism

By: Teresa Fava Thomas

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American Arabists in the Cold War Middle East, 194675

From Orientalism to Professionalism

By: Teresa Fava Thomas

This book examines the careers of 53 area experts in the US State Department’s Middle East bureau during the Cold War. Known as Arabists or Middle East hands, they were very different in background, education, and policy outlook from their predecessors, the Orientalists. A highly competitive selection process and rigorous training shaped them into a small corps of diplomatic professionals with top-notch linguistic and political reporting skills. Case studies shed light on Washington’s perceptions of Israel and the Arab world, as well as how American leaders came to regard (and often disregard) the advice of their own expert advisors. This study focuses on their transformative role in Middle East diplomacy from the Eisenhower through the Ford administrations.

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Anthem Press

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178308510X

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9781783085101

Geofluids

Developments in Microthermometry, Spectroscopy, Thermodynamics, and Stable Isotopes

By: Vratislav Hurai,Monika Huraiová,Marek Slobodník,Rainer Thomas

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Geofluids

Developments in Microthermometry, Spectroscopy, Thermodynamics, and Stable Isotopes

By: Vratislav Hurai,Monika Huraiová,Marek Slobodník,Rainer Thomas

Geofluids: Developments in Microthermometry, Spectroscopy, Thermodynamics, and Stable Isotopes is the definitive source on paleofluids and the migration of hydrocarbons in sedimentary basins—ideal for researchers in oil and gas exploration. There's been a rapid development of new non-destructive analytical methods and interdisciplinary research that makes it difficult to find a single source of content on the subject of geofluids. Geoscience researchers commonly use multiple tools to interpret geologic problems, particularly if the problems involve fluid-rock interaction. This book perfectly combines the techniques of fluid inclusion microthermometry, stable isotope analyses, and various types of spectroscopy, including Raman analysis, to contribute to a thorough approach to research. Through a practical and intuitive step-by-step approach, the authors explain sample preparation, measurements, and the interpretation and analysis of data related to thermodynamics and mineral-fluid equilibria. - Features working examples in each chapter with step-by-step explanations and calculations - Broad range of case studies aid the analytical and experimental data - Includes appendices with equations of state, stable isotope fractionation equations, and Raman identification tables that aid in identification of fluid inclusion minerals - Authored by a team of expert scientists who have more than 60 years of related experience in the field and classroom combined

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Elsevier

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0128032421

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9780128032428

One Night with a Cowboy: A Western Romance Sampler

By: Linda Lael Miller,Diana Palmer,Maisey Yates,Jodi Thomas,Trish Milburn,B.J. Daniels,Delores Fossen,Linda Warren,Lindsay McKenna,Mia Kay

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One Night with a Cowboy: A Western Romance Sampler

By: Linda Lael Miller,Diana Palmer,Maisey Yates,Jodi Thomas,Trish Milburn,B.J. Daniels,Delores Fossen,Linda Warren,Lindsay McKenna,Mia Kay

Tough, rugged and oh-so-sexy…There's just something about those Western men. From Wyoming to Oregon, Texas to Montana, let today's top-selling masters of Western romance sweep you away with this sneak peek at ten brand new novels. The West has never been wilder! Featuring extended excerpts from Once a Rancher by Linda Lael Miller, Untamed by Diana Palmer, One Night Charmer by Maisey Yates, Rustler's Moon by Jodi Thomas, Home on the Ranch by Trish Milburn, Hard Rain by B.J. Daniels, Texas on My Mind by Delores Fossen, Texas Rebels: Jude by Linda Warren, Out Rider by Lindsay McKenna, and Hard Silence by Mia Kay.

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HQN Books

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145929579X

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9781459295797

Edgar Wind and Modern Art

In Defence of Marginal Anarchy

By: Ben Thomas

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Edgar Wind and Modern Art

In Defence of Marginal Anarchy

By: Ben Thomas

This book presents the first comprehensive study of the philosopher and art historian Edgar Wind's critique of modern art. The first student of Erwin Panofsky, and a close associate of Aby Warburg, Edgar Wind was unusual among the 'Warburgians' for his sustained interest in modern art, together with his support for contemporary artists. This culminated in his respected and influential book Art and Anarchy (1963), which seemed like a departure from his usual scholarly work on the iconography of Renaissance art. Based on extensive archival research and bringing to light previously unpublished lectures, Edgar Wind and Modern Art reveals the extent and seriousness of Wind's thinking about modern art, and how it was bound up with theories about art and knowledge that he had developed during the 1920s and 30s. Wind's ideas are placed in the context of a closely connected international cultural milieu consisting of some of the leading artists and thinkers of the twentieth century. In particular, the book discusses in detail his friendships with three significant artists: Pavel Tchelitchew, Ben Shahn and R. B. Kitaj. In the process, the existence of an alternative to the prevailing formalist approach of Alfred Barr and Clement Greenberg to modern art, based on the enduring importance of the symbol, is revealed.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501341731

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Denver Landmarks and Historic Districts

By: Thomas J. Noel,Nicholas Wharton

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Denver Landmarks and Historic Districts

By: Thomas J. Noel,Nicholas Wharton

A Timberline Book Denver Landmarks and Historic Districts, Second Edition is the newest, most thorough guide to Denver’s 51 historic districts and more than 331 individually landmarked properties. This lavishly illustrated volume celebrates Denver’s oldest banks, churches, clubs, hotels, libraries, schools, restaurants, mansions, and show homes. Denver is unusually fortunate to retain much of its significant architectural heritage. The Denver Landmark Preservation Commission (1967), Historic Denver, Inc. (1970), Colorado Preservation, Inc. (1984), and History Colorado (1879) have all worked to identify and preserve Denver buildings notable for architectural, geographical, or historical significance. Since the 1970s, Denver has designated more landmarks than any other US city of comparable size. Many of these landmarks, both well-known and obscure, are open to the public. These landmarks and districts have helped make Denver one of the healthiest and most attractive core cities in the United States, transforming what was once Skid Row into the Lower Downtown Historic District of million-dollar lofts and $7 craft beers. Entries include the Daniels & Fisher Tower, the Brown Palace Hotel, Red Rocks Outdoor Amphitheatre, Elitch Theatre, Fire Station No. 7, the Richthofen Castle, the Washington Park Boathouse and Pavilion, and the Capitol Hill, Five Points, and Highlands historic districts. Denver Landmarks and Historic Districts highlights the many officially designated buildings and neighborhoods of note. This crisply written guide serves as a great starting point for rubbernecking around Denver, whether by motor vehicle, by bicycle, or afoot.

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University Press of Colorado

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1607324229

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9781607324225

Improving Energy Decisions

Towards Better Scientific Policy Advice for a Safe and Secure Future Energy System

By: Bert Droste-Franke,M. Carrier,M. Kaiser,Miranda Schreurs,Christoph Weber,Thomas Ziesemer

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Improving Energy Decisions

Towards Better Scientific Policy Advice for a Safe and Secure Future Energy System

By: Bert Droste-Franke,M. Carrier,M. Kaiser,Miranda Schreurs,Christoph Weber,Thomas Ziesemer

Managing a successful transition of the current energy supply system to less carbon emitting options, ensuring a safe and secure supply during the whole process and in the long term, is one of the largest challenges of our time. Various approaches and first implementations show that it is not only technological issue, but also a matter of societal acceptance and acceptability, considering basic ethic values of the society. The main foci of the book are, thus, to develop an understanding about the specific challenges of the scientific policy advice in the area, to explore typical current approaches for the analysis of future energy systems and to develop criteria for the quality assessment and guidelines for the improvement of such studies. The book provides assistance to the interpretation of existing studies and guidelines for setting up and carrying out new analyses as well as for communicating and applying the results. Thereby, it aims to support the involved actors such as the respective scientific experts and researchers as well as decision makers, energy suppliers, stakeholders and the interested public in designing procedures for a successful transition process. The study elaborates consistent interdisciplinary advice as contribution for realising a continuously safe and secure, long-term viable energy supply in spite of diverse interests, multi-level responsibilities, multi-dimensional processes, large uncertainties and lack of knowledge about future developments.

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Springer

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3319113461

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9783319113463

Jimmy Carter and the Anglo-American "e;Special Relationship"e;

By: Thomas K. Robb

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Jimmy Carter and the Anglo-American "e;Special Relationship"e;

By: Thomas K. Robb

Robb Thomas draws upon a wealth of previously classified documents to reveal that relations between Britain and the United States of America during Carter's presidency were riven with antagonism and disagreement. Contrary to existing interpretations, even the most 'special' aspects of intelligence and nuclear cooperation were not immune to high-level political tension. Robb exposes the true competitive nature of the relationship during Carter's presidency, as well as providing an original understanding to how both countries approached the breakdown of superpower detente; the subject of international human rights promotion; the tackling of common economic and energy challenges and to the Anglo-American nuclear and intelligence relationship.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474407021

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Swan and Shadow

Yeats's Dialogue with History

By: Thomas Whitaker

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Swan and Shadow

Yeats's Dialogue with History

By: Thomas Whitaker

History was central in a variety of ways to Yeats's poetic development and to the meaning of his work. In this study, Whitaker suggests that history was for the poet a mysterious interlocutor, which Yeats saw at times as a bright reflection of himself and again as a dark force opposed to that self. The poet's internal dialogue is viewed as projection into historical symbolism. Originally published in 1964. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

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UNC Press Books

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0807836869

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9780807836866

Archaeology, Anthropology and Cult

The Sanctuary at Gilat,Israel

By: Thomas Evan Levy

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Archaeology, Anthropology and Cult

The Sanctuary at Gilat,Israel

By: Thomas Evan Levy

The Chalcolithic period was formative in Near Eastern prehistory, being a time of fundamental social change in craft specialization, horticulture and temple life. Gilat - a low mound, semi-communal farming settlement in the Negev desert - is one of the few Chalcolithic sanctuary sites in the Southern Levant. 'Archaeology, Anthropology and Cult' presents a critical analysis of the archaeological data from Gilat. The book brings together archaeological finds and anthropological theory to examine the role of religion in the evolution of society and the power of ritual in promoting change. This comprehensive volume, which includes artefact drawings, photographs, maps and data tables, will be of interest to students and scholars of ancient history, anthropology, archaeology, as well as biblical and religious studies.

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Routledge

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1134946562

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9781134946563

Climate Change and Common Sense

Essays in Honour of Tom Schelling

By: Thomas C. Schelling

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Climate Change and Common Sense

Essays in Honour of Tom Schelling

By: Thomas C. Schelling

Each chapter represents a contribution to the literature on the political economy of climate change.

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Oxford University Press

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0199692874

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Hero of the Crossing

How Anwar Sadat and the 1973 War Changed the World

By: Thomas W. Lippman

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Hero of the Crossing

How Anwar Sadat and the 1973 War Changed the World

By: Thomas W. Lippman

In eleven dramatic years, Anwar Sadat changed history--not just that of Egypt, or of the Middle East, but of the entire world. As the architect of the 1973 war against Israel, he gained the support of other Arab nations and inspired the oil embargo that transformed the global economy. Following the war, however, he forever ended Arab aspirations of unity by making peace with Israel. Early in his presidency, Sadat jettisoned Egypt's alliance with the Soviet Union and turned to the United States, thereby giving the West a crucial Cold War victory. Sadat's historic tenure still resonates in the twenty-first century as the Islamic activists--whom he originally encouraged but who opposed his conciliatory policy toward Israel and ultimately played a role in his assassination--continue to foster activism, including the Muslim Brotherhood, today.Thomas W. Lippman was stationed in the Middle East as a journalist during Sadat's presidency and lived in Egypt in the aftermath of the October War. He knew Sadat personally, but only now, after the passage of time and the long-delayed release of the U.S. State Department's diplomatic files, can Lippman assess the full consequences of Sadat's presidency. Hero of the Crossing provides an eye-opening account of the profound reverberations of one leader's political, cultural, and economic maneuverings and legacy"--

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U of Nebraska Press

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1612347959

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Book's by Thomas Sterner

The Practicing Mind

The Practicing Mind

Leave No Man Behind

Leave No Man Behind

Policy Instruments for Environmental and Natural Resource Management

Policy Instruments for Environmental and Natural Resource Management

Permanent Income, Wealth, and Consumption

Permanent Income, Wealth, and Consumption

American Arabists in the Cold War Middle East, 194675

American Arabists in the Cold War Middle East, 194675

Geofluids

Geofluids

One Night with a Cowboy: A Western Romance Sampler

One Night with a Cowboy: A Western Romance Sampler

Edgar Wind and Modern Art

Edgar Wind and Modern Art

Denver Landmarks and Historic Districts

Denver Landmarks and Historic Districts

Improving Energy Decisions

Improving Energy Decisions

Jimmy Carter and the Anglo-American "e;Special Relationship"e;

Jimmy Carter and the Anglo-American "e;Special Relationship"e;

Swan and Shadow

Swan and Shadow

Archaeology, Anthropology and Cult

Archaeology, Anthropology and Cult

Climate Change and Common Sense

Climate Change and Common Sense

Hero of the Crossing

Hero of the Crossing

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