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Author: Tudor Rickards
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780415355841
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a thematic examination of the most influential ideas and writings on leadership. The text creates order from the chaos of leadership literature, and its structure, style and original approach encourages reader reflection.
Author: Meira Levinson
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Published: 2019-01-02
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1612509347
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEducators and policy makers confront challenging questions of ethics, justice, and equity on a regular basis. Should teachers retain a struggling student if it means she will most certainly drop out? Should an assignment plan favor middle-class families if it means strengthening the school system for all? These everyday dilemmas are both utterly ordinary and immensely challenging, yet there are few opportunities and resources to help educators think through the ethical issues at stake. Drawing on research and methods developed in the Justice in Schools project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Dilemmas of Educational Ethics introduces a new interdisciplinary approach to achieving practical wisdom in education, one that honors the complexities inherent in educational decision making and encourages open discussion of the values and principles we should collectively be trying to realize in educational policy and practice. At the heart of the book are six richly described, realistic accounts of ethical dilemmas that have arisen in education in recent years, paired with responses written by noted philosophers, empirical researchers, policy makers, and practitioners, including Pedro Noguera, Howard Gardner, Mary Pattillo, Andres A. Alonso, Jamie Ahlberg, Toby N. Romer, and Michael J. Petrilli. The editors illustrate how readers can use and adapt these cases and commentaries in schools and other settings in order to reach a difficult decision, deepen their own understanding, or to build teams around shared values.
Author: Kamlesh D. Patel
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
Published: 2019-09-10
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 140195930X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat does destiny mean in the course of our lives? What is fixed and what can we change? International best-selling author and spiritual guide Kamlesh D. Patel explains how to use the spiritual practices of Heartfulness to expand your consciousness, evolve your mind, find true happiness, and live your purpose. We create our destiny, step-by-step, through the journey of life. Every choice leads us in a certain direction-either toward or away from our life's purpose. We can learn to become purposeful architects of our fate with the practices and lifestyle changes described by Kamlesh D. Patel, founder of the Heartfulness Institute and fourth spiritual guide of this global movement. In Designing Destiny, you will discover: o A practical approach to the fundamental principles of destiny o The four core practices of Heartfulness—relaxation, meditation, cleaning, and prayer—that will expand your consciousness from mundane to divine o The lifestyle changes that lead to true happiness o How to transform your relationships and raise the vibration of our communities o How to progress through the levels of evolution through spiritual practice Heartfulness offers a simple, scientific approach to expand our consciousness, realize our full human potential, and live a purposeful life. As our lifestyle evolves, our ability to design our own destiny-and that of the world-becomes natural and effortless.
Author: Wendy Witherow
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9781934306109
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith prayers for God's guidance in her life and help from friends and family, Destiny searches her heart to make room for the adoption of the baby sister from China.
Author: Michael Jackson
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2024-12-10
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 1512826723
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ingenious ways dilemmas are addressed in non-Western traditions Dilemmas explores some of the most pressing existential problems of our times, from climate change, political conflict, and social injustice, to balancing one’s own needs against those of others. Pushing back against the tendency to think of dilemmas as clear-cut binary choices, renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson shows us some of the ingenious ways that dilemmas are addressed in non-Western thought and oral traditions, as well as in Western philosophy. Drawing on examples from myth, literature, and his extensive ethnographic fieldwork in West Africa and Aboriginal Australia, each of thirteen chapters examines a particular dilemma and how it is experienced, circumvented, or reimagined. From the struggles of the Aboriginal people of Central Australia for land rights to Walter Benjamin’s harrowing journey across the Pyrenees as he fled German-occupied France in 1940; from the story of a suburban family in Aotearoa New Zealand adjusting to life in a commune to the dilemmas of migrants from the Global South trying to reconcile their search for a better life with their longing for home—Jackson interweaves philosophical reflections, insights from his anthropological fieldwork, and individual life stories. In striking a balance between our contradictory impulses to be both apart from and together with others, Jackson makes a case against identitarian essentialism, showing us how the oppositional thinking through which we often frame our contemporary dilemmas may be overcome.
Author: Chris Stevenson
Publisher: Knox Press
Published: 2020-08-11
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1682619567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe year is 1775, and twelve-year-old Gabriel Cooper is an orphaned patriot stuck living in a house of British loyalists. But when the boy discovers a discarded drum in the East River, he sees it as a call to leave his home in New York and join the American colonists’ fight for freedom in Boston. With rich, historic details, Gabriel’s adventure will captivate readers as they join him on the difficult journey to his destiny.
Author: Tiffany Haynes
Publisher: Black Beauty Publishing
Published: 2019-05-25
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 1093183829
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe drama continues as Myra founds her lover, Jamal with his deranged ex- girlfriend, Mercedes together in a compromising position. Heartbroken, Myra runs into the arms of her baby daddy, Lil’ T who’s willing to comfort her in her time of need. Myra, Jamal and Lil’ T will soon have to overcome the obstacles as the drama unfolds in front of their eyes, including someone who’d like Jamal out of the picture –for good. Can Myra and Jamal have a normal life without the drama and will they finally realize their love is stronger than anything ever?
Author: Bimal Krishna Matilal
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 8120806034
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere the collected papers explore the whole question of the relation between the mythopoetic and the moral in the context of the Mahabharata. Here we have a story of extreme complexity, characters that are unforgettable, and a cosmic context in which gods and men alike grapple with destiny. The obligations of kinship and friendship jostle with each other. The women characters, as in everyday life, seem to bear a very heavy load of the burden of life and to stand in a key position in almost every conflict. We are presented with predicaments at every turn. At times these predicaments seem to be aggravated by social structure. At other times they are cushioned by it. Philosophical tangles tied up with karma and dharma are interwoven with the mythopoetic material. Perhaps philosophical issues are pinpointed rather more than they are in Greek epic literature. The essays in this book treat the Mahabharata from an unusual angle, fastening on the moral dilemmas it presents. How universal are the dilemmas faced by the characters in the story, and are the dilemmas in fact resolved? In dealing with these questions, the discussions range over the meaning of the purusarthas, the institutions of marriage and the family, the concept of action in the Gita and the special predicaments faced by Draupadi, Arjuna and others. These studies invite the scholar to reflect afresh on the text and encourage the general reader to find in epic literature much that is relevant to life today.
Author: S. C. Mitchell
Publisher: Lake Scrawls Publishing
Published: 2024-01-12
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Blarmling Dilemma by S.C. Mitchell is a sexy, exciting Sci-fi romance that is also quite adorable. - 4½ Stars and a Reviewers Top Pick from Night Owl Reviews “They’re not animals. They’re people!” Phoebe Callista’s pleas fall on deaf ears and she’s forced to rescue two helpless Blarmlings from certain death. Fleeing across a backwater sector of the galaxy, with Galactic Marshals in hot pursuit, Phoebe falls into the hands of a handsome but determined bounty hunter. Rigel Antares has captured wanted criminals throughout the galaxy rim, but he’s never come across anything like Phoebe Callista. The gorgeous blonde sure knows how to play the innocent, and something deep inside wants to believe her, but Rigel has problems of his own—a ship that’s falling apart and an unscrupulous Galactic Marshal looking for any excuse to send him back to the prison planets of the Theiler System. An intergalactic circus, vicious space pirates, and a planet full of backtechers cross their paths as Phoebe and Rigel fight to save a pair of adorable Blarmlings. The Blarmling Dilemma is the first book in the Destiny’s Legacy series set one hundred years after the events of S. C. Mitchell’s Destiny series.
Author: Russell W. Gough
Publisher:
Published: 2020-01-21
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9781922348081
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Russ Gough has accomplished something very rare: A college philosopher has written a book in real English for real people on the most important subject of all-character. I congratulate him. This is the proverbial required reading book for high school and college students, and their parents; in other words, for everyone." -DENNIS PRAGER, radio talk-show host and author of Think a Second Time An inescapable truth lies at the heart of this simple yet profound book: The quality of our lives is not determined by the happenstance of genetics or by the influence of environment; it is not measured in material possessions or in the trappings of youth; it is not dependent on personality or social acclaim. On the contrary, the intrinsic value of the lives we lead reflects the strength of a single trait: our personal character. Character is Destiny, a sort of self-help guide for the soul, shows how we can lead richer lives simply by being better people. Russell W. Gough, a nationally prominent writer and speaker, describes the steps to personal growth-from examining our lives to taking responsibility for our actions, from discarding selfishness to embracing the greater good, from becoming a better role model for our loved ones to finding the courage to do the right thing naturally and consistently. By cultivating the habits of virtue, we will strengthen not only ourselves but, more important, our families and our world. This book shows how to overcome the most formidable obstacle to an ethical life: ourselves. Each and every day we are faced with scores of choices that, in subtle yet discernible ways, can either enrich or impoverish our personal character. The choices we make, and the manner in which we make them, illuminate the paths our lives will take. Character is Destiny can be our compass. RUSSELL W. GOUGH is a professor of ethics and philosophy at Pepperdine University. He had lectured across the country and was a chairman for the annual White House Conference on Character Building. His articles on ethics and character have appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and elsewhere. In addition, he is the author of the book Character is Everything: Promoting Ethical Excellence in Sports."
