Elegant Failure

Elegant Failure

Author: Richard Shrobe

Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Published: 2016-08-01

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1930485514

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Zen koans are stories of exchanges between Zen masters and their disciples at the moment of enlightenment or near-enlightenment. These stories have long fascinated Western readers because of their wisdom, humor, and enigmatic quality. Drawing on over thirty years of practice and teaching, Richard Shrobe (himself a recognized Zen Master) has selected twenty-two cases from The Blue Cliff Record, Book of Serenity, and Wu-men-kuan that he has found to be deeply meaningful and helpful for meditation practice. In Elegant Failure, he provides a wealth of background information and personal anecdotes for each koan that help to illuminate its meaning without detracting from its paradoxical nature. As Shrobe reminds us, "The main core of Zen teaching is the bare bones of what is there. In a certain sense, embellishing a story takes away from the central teaching: Don’t embellish anything, just be with it as it is."


Elegant Failure

Elegant Failure

Author: Richard Shrobe

Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Published: 2010-05-25

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1930485255

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Zen koans are stories of exchanges between Zen masters and their disciples at the moment of enlightenment or near-enlightenment. These stories have long fascinated Western readers because of their wisdom, humor, and enigmatic quality. Drawing on over thirty years of practice and teaching, Richard Shrobe (himself a recognized Zen Master) has selected twenty-two cases from The Blue Cliff Record and Wu-men-kuan that he finds deeply meaningful and helpful for meditation practice. In Elegant Failure, he provides a wealth of background information and personal anecdotes for each koan that help to illuminate its meaning without detracting from its paradoxical nature. As Shrobe reminds us, "The main core of Zen teaching is the bare bones of what is there. In a certain sense, embellishing a story takes away from the central teaching: Don’t embellish anything, just be with it as it is."


Information Security for Lawyers and Law Firms

Information Security for Lawyers and Law Firms

Author: Sharon D. Nelson

Publisher: American Bar Association

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9781590316634

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The book provides sound advice and offers valuable guidelines and assistance to bridge the worlds of law and technology on important information security issues that face the legal professional every day. This essential guide discusses the ethical duties of lawyers relating to securing their electronic information. If you are a small firm it will advise you on how you can have reliable security. If you are a large firm it will help you to decide what information security duties can be delegated. Other topics include, worms, Trojans, spyware, malware, spiders, key loggers and their implications, and whether or not it is safe to use wireless technology for the delivery of legal services.


A Changing Environment for Human Security

A Changing Environment for Human Security

Author: Linda Sygna

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-06-26

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 113627250X

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Environmental change presents a new context and new opportunities for transformational change. This timely book will inspire new ways of understanding the relationship between environmental change and human security. A Changing Environment for Human Security: Transformative Approaches to Research, Policy and Action both supports and informs a call for new, transformative approaches to research, policy and action. The chapters in this book include critical analyses, case studies and reflections on contemporary environmental and social challenges, with a strong emphasis on those related to climate change. Human thoughts and actions have contributed to an environment of insecurity, manifested as multiple interacting threats that now represent a serious challenge to humanity. Yet humans also have the capacity to collectively transform the economic, political, social and cultural systems and structures that perpetuate human insecurities. These fresh perspectives on global environmental change from an interdisciplinary group of international experts will inspire readers – whether students, researchers, policy makers, or practitioners – to think differently about environmental issues and sustainability. The contributions show that in a changing environment, human security is not only a possibility, but a choice.


A Bigger Prize

A Bigger Prize

Author: Denis Gray

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2013-07

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 1475993854

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When trainer Frank Black Machine Whaley of View Point, Texas, dies of a heart attack in 1946, Elegant Raines, an eighteen-year-old black prizefighter, must find a new trainer. Raines calls on Leemore Pee-Pot Manners, a boxing trainer who lives in Longwood, West Virginia. Any honest man would say Pee-Pot knows more about boxing than anyone alive whether that man is black or white. Raines's goal is to become the heavyweight champion of the world. Under Pee-Pot's tutelage Raines wins not only the middleweight championship, but the light heavyweight championship, marking him as one of the greatest fighters of his time. During his quest for the title, Raines falls in love with Gem Loving, a pastor's daughter whose father, Pastor Embry O. Loving, maintains a dim view of fighters. Gem must fight for Raines in ways her father will condemn. A Bigger Prize tells a fictional story of the boxing world in the 1940s and what the sport meant to both blacks and whites of the time. It considers the question of whether Elegant Raines's bigger prize is the world's heavyweight championship or something outside the ring more violent than boxing and its reward.


Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 and Databases

Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 and Databases

Author: John Kauffman

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-08-28

Total Pages: 566

ISBN-13: 0470083999

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Combining both VB.Net and C# coverage in one book, this guide focuses on using ASP.NET 2.0 for solving business dynamic Web site challenges in a logical progression, from connecting to a database to displaying information to changing data Covers the fundamentals of connecting Web pages to databases, techniques for creating data objects and events, and ways to handle data errors Features tricks and traps for displaying data in grids, lists, and trees Goes beyond the usual basic techniques to discuss the best practices and pitfalls that can occur in real-world scenarios with SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Access, and the new SQL Server Express Edition


Tiny Thoughts

Tiny Thoughts

Author: Alexandra Popa

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-10-11

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 3757890140

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Bist du bereit für eine emotionale Achterbahnfahrt der Liebe, des Herzschmerzes und der Transformation? Dann ist "Tiny thoughts" das Buch für dich! Diese Sammlung von kurzen, tiefgründigen Gedichten taucht tief ein in die Bereiche der Liebe, der gemütlichen Romantik, der dunklen Emotionen, der Heilung und des stärkenden Prozesses, Selbstliebe zu erlernen. Du wirst Worte finden, die dein Herz berühren, mit deinen Erfahrungen in Resonanz treten und deiner Seele Trost spenden werden. Mit jeder Seite, die du umblätterst, wirst du eine Vielzahl von Emotionen durch dich strömen fühlen - von herzerwärmenden Lächeln bis hin zu bittersüßen Tränen. Du wirst entdecken, dass selbst in den Tiefen des Herzschmerzes Platz für Wachstum und Transformation ist. Das feine Gleichgewicht zwischen Verletzlichkeit und Stärke wird dir klar werden, während du dich in diese nachdenklichen Verse vertiefst.


Interactive Storytelling

Interactive Storytelling

Author: Mirjam Vosmeer

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-12-01

Total Pages: 714

ISBN-13: 3031222989

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2022, held in Santa Cruz, CA, USA, in December 2022. The 30 full papers and 10 short papers, presented together with 17 posters and demos, were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions.


Johnny Depp Starts Here

Johnny Depp Starts Here

Author: Murray Pomerance

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0813535662

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Presents a study of Johnny Depp's film performances, from A nightmare on Elm Street to Secret window.


The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics

The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics

Author: Stanley Hauerwas

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 527

ISBN-13: 1405128755

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The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics presents a comprehensive and systematic exposition of Christian ethics, seen through the lens of Christian worship. An innovative exposition of Christian ethics, seen through the lens of Christian worship Challenges conventional approaches to the subject Restores a sense of the integral connection between Christian ethics and theology Stanley Hauerwas is one of the most influential figures in Christian ethics around the world Embraces contributors from the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Methodist, Presbyterian, Mennonite and Pentecostal traditions Designed to be accessible to introductory students Will have a major impact on the discipline of Christian ethics