Freak of Nurture
Title | Freak of Nurture PDF eBook |
Author | Kelli Dunham |
Publisher | Topside Signature |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 2013-04 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 9780983242284 |
In the tradition of authors such as David Sedaris and Ellen DeGeneres, these slice of life stories remind us that even though humans are deeply flawed, we're also pretty funny that way. Kelli Dunham demonstrates that comedy and chaos reign when you combine a great sense of humor with a determination to make bad ideas a fantastic reality. Whether she is hitchhiking across Haiti to help out with disaster relief or volunteering at a convention full of 7,000 screaming Sarah Palin fans, her humorous interpretation of difficult situations is both inspiring and entertaining.
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
Title | The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Lewis |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 346 |
Release | 2007-09-17 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0393066223 |
The #1 New York Times Bestseller "Lewis has such a gift for storytelling…he writes as lucidly for sports fans as for those who read him for other reasons." —Janet Maslin, New York Times When we first meet him, Michael Oher is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or how to read or write. He takes up football, and school, after a rich, white, Evangelical family plucks him from the streets. Then two great forces alter Oher: the family’s love and the evolution of professional football itself into a game where the quarterback must be protected at any cost. Our protagonist becomes the priceless package of size, speed, and agility necessary to guard the quarterback’s greatest vulnerability, his blind side.
The Control Freak
Title | The Control Freak PDF eBook |
Author | Les Parrott |
Publisher | Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2001-01-29 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 9780842337939 |
Presenting practical strategies, this guide is for everyone who has a control freak in their lives--or who is a control freak. Parrott helps readers discover how God gives them grace to deal with difficult people and also face their own need to control.
Victorian Literature and the Victorian State
Title | Victorian Literature and the Victorian State PDF eBook |
Author | Lauren M. E. Goodlad |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2003-12-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780801869631 |
Studies of Victorian governance have been profoundly influenced by Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault's groundbreaking genealogy of modern power. Yet, according to Lauren Goodlad, Foucault's analysis is better suited to the history of the Continent than to nineteenth-century Britain, with its decentralized, voluntarist institutional culture and passionate disdain for state interference. Focusing on a wide range of Victorian writing—from literary figures such as Charles Dickens, George Gissing, Harriet Martineau, J. S. Mill, Anthony Trollope, and H. G. Wells to prominent social reformers such as Edwin Chadwick, Thomas Chalmers, Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth, and Beatrice Webb—Goodlad shows that Foucault's later essays on liberalism and "governmentality" provide better critical tools for understanding the nineteenth-century British state. Victorian Literature and the Victorian State delves into contemporary debates over sanitary, education, and civil service reform, the Poor Laws, and the century-long attempt to substitute organized charity for state services. Goodlad's readings elucidate the distinctive quandary of Victorian Britain and, indeed, any modern society conceived in liberal terms: the elusive quest for a "pastoral" agency that is rational, all-embracing, and effective but also anti-bureaucratic, personalized, and liberatory. In this study, impressively grounded in literary criticism, social history, and political theory, Goodlad offers a timely post-Foucauldian account of Victorian governance that speaks to the resurgent neoliberalism of our own day. -- Janice Carlisle
Kid Dictionary
Title | Kid Dictionary PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Ruhalter |
Publisher | Sourcebooks, Inc. |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2012-03-01 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 1402264674 |
Wishjack: (WISH—jak) v: To blow out the candles on another child's birthday cake. Been a kid? Have a kid? Know a kid? Been left utterly speechless by the wit, wisdom, grossness, and hilarity that accompanies children wherever they go? The Kid Dictionary has the ingenious and hilarious words you need to describe the indescribable: life with kids. Humorous, insightful, and unique, it's perfect for anyone with kids even remotely in their life — from expectant parents to grandparents to aunts and uncles. Finally, the pitch-perfect "why didn't I think of that?" words you've always needed! Brofitti: (broh-FEE-tee) v: The act of scribbling with permanent marker on the face of a younger sibling. Clandesdine: (klan-DES-dyne) v: To hide from one's child while eating a cookie so he doesn't ask for one too.
Power Freaks
Title | Power Freaks PDF eBook |
Author | David L. Weiner |
Publisher | Prometheus Books |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2010-08-05 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1615923284 |
Featuring a "power quiz" to help readers assess their own instinctual drive for power, this handbook teaches how to recognize potentially destructive people in life and develop a strategy to deal with them.
The Entrepreneurial Journey
Title | The Entrepreneurial Journey PDF eBook |
Author | John J. Waldron |
Publisher | Greenleaf Book Group |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2019-11-12 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1632992515 |
A Balanced Approach Emotional awareness is critical for entrepreneurs throughout every stage of the business life cycle. As their businesses begin and then mature, entrepreneurs face increasingly complex emotional challenges that they must navigate as they take their businesses from an idea to the maturation period of growth and expansion, to succession planning and divestiture, to the day they step aside. John Waldron has leveraged his own entrepreneurial experience and that of the hundreds of business owners he has counseled to build an essential framework that addresses the important balance between the tangible and intangible complexities of each stage of The Entrepreneurial Journey. To achieve the greatest level of success, you have to balance the technical with the emotional. The Entrepreneurial Journey will help potential entrepreneurs navigate both, so so that they may bring their businesses to their full potential.