Try It This Way...
Try It This Way...

Author: J. Michael Curtis

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2012-09-13

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1477254323

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A long time observer of the human condition, Curtis combines a wry wit with some unexpected opinions, penetrating insights and intensely personal reflections. This book covers a wide range of topics from the mundane to the metaphysical, spun with a sense of humour and wonder. This read has some delightful surprises that will leave you thinking and laughing. You never know what to expect. For a regular guy, the author puts forth some very deep observations and opinions on how to achieve extraordinary happiness in your life. While you may not agree with all of his arguments, you will nevertheless find yourself contemplating some of your own personal convictions. - Walter T. Leps, Ph.D., President, WAI BioProcess Solutions I know Mike to be a happy guy who is getting happier with age. He has figured some things out that are worth considering to build a happier life for yourself in mind, body, spirit and heart. Mike will help you get closer faster and easier if you experiment with his advice. - Gaye Hanson, Blue Flowing Water Woman

Nothing but the Dirt
Nothing but the Dirt

Author: Kate Benz

Publisher: University Press of Kansas

Published: 2022-07-15

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 0700633456

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In this work of creative nonfiction, author Kate Benz provides an intimate look at the present-day residents of Courtland, Kansas (population 285), a town whose economy depends almost entirely on agriculture. Through charming, first-person accounts, Nothing but the Dirt: Stories from an American Farm Town tells the whole story of life in Courtland, bucking the “Rural America is dying” narrative that so often proliferates national headlines about small-town USA. Throughout the book, Benz paints a picture of community that is unwilling to give up on each other. Macro-level issues such as rising tariffs, operation costs versus sinking commodity prices, and infusions of federal farm subsidies affect the locals’ daily livelihood, but it’s their love of their community that continues their collective efforts to keep Main Street open for business and Courtland on the map. These are the stories from one corner of rural America, told through the people who live there: the fourth-generation farmers, the young professionals, the transplants, the small business owners (many of whom are women)—a community that is nuclear, blended, straight, gay, red, blue, religious, and anything but. Young people who grew up in Courtland are moving back to raise their kids there, but instead of farming, they are opening breweries, boutiques, marketing agencies, or hair salons. They love rural life but want a new way to define it. Courtland is a community that is unwaveringly determined to keep their corner of rural America not only alive but thriving, refusing to let challenges define or deter them. Instead, they continuously find creative ways to overcome, adapt, improve, and move forward.

USIA
USIA

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations

Publisher:

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 832

ISBN-13:

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Sunbreaks
Sunbreaks

Author: Greg Messel

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2009-09-23

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1426935447

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After losing his beloved wife to a drunk driver, fifty-three year old Tom Walker retreats into dark clouds of depression, isolating himself from friends, family, and the things he loves. Gloomy days turn into years and just when it seems there will be no break in the clouds, a light appears, in the form of a dazzling young woman named Erika Stevens. Tom is old enough to be her father, but he refuses to let their chance encounter in a rain-soaked city parking lot go to waste, and as the two strangers move from public coffee dates to something more, they make a surprising Valentines Day pact friendship at all costs. But can men and women really be just friends? And is age really, as Erika says, just a number? Set in the vibrant (and famously rainy) city of Portland, Oregon, Tom and Erikas story serves as a potent reminder that even the seemingly endless storm clouds of life have breaks sun breaks that seem to come in the most unexpected places.

The Things That Really Matter
The Things That Really Matter

Author: Michael Hauskeller

Publisher: UCL Press

Published: 2022-05-10

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1800082177

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While being rooted in the academic discourse, The Things That Really Matter comprehensively explores the most fundamental aspects of human life in an accessible, non-technical language, adding fresh perspectives and new arguments and considerations that are designed to stimulate further debate and, in some cases, a deliberate redirection of research interests in the respective areas. It features a series of conversations about the things in our life that we all, in one way or another, wrestle with if we are at all concerned about what kind of world we live in and what our role in it is: things like birth, age, and death, good and evil, the meaning of life, the nature of the self and the role the body plays for our identity, our gendered existence, love and faith, free will, beauty, and our experience of the sacred. Situating abstract ideas in concrete experience, The Things That Really Matter encourages the reader to participate in an open-ended dialogue involving a variety of thinkers with different backgrounds and orientations. Lively and accessible, it shows thinking as an open-ended process and a collaborative endeavour that benefits from talking to each other rather than against each other, featuring real conversations, where ideas are explored, tested, changed, and occasionally dropped. It is thinking in motion, personal yet universal.

BURNS - Weight Loss For Women
BURNS - Weight Loss For Women

Author: Olivia Marques

Publisher: Olivia Marques

Published: 2014-01-11

Total Pages: 67

ISBN-13:

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Feel like your body is fighting against you in your quest for weight loss results? Have you tried weight loss plan after weight loss plan and nothing seems to work for you? If so, it’s time to stop fighting your body, and work with it instead. In Weight Loss For Women, you will learn what makes the female body different and what you need to do to really get fat loss moving along. Most women who seek fast weight loss make the grave mistake of jumping on the first quick-fix diet they can find that promises fast results. Maybe you saw your friend use the plan and get results or perhaps it’s the ‘hottest’ weight loss plan all the celebrities are using. But is it right for you? The first step to seeing successful weight loss is realizing that healthy weight loss is about more than just counting calories or spending hours on the treadmill. Healthy weight loss is about changing your mindset and way of thinking so that you are making permanent changes that promote a lean and fit body. You need a weight loss plan for women that works with your day to day lifestyle. It’s rare to find a weight loss book that addresses this because most just give you the quick solution and hope it’s enough to bring you temporary results and keep you busy. You don’t want the quick solution though – you want lasting results that you feel good about. That’s what our Weight Loss For Women program is all about. Throughout the course of this weight loss book, you’ll discover: • Simple yet highly effective tips to maximise your metabolic rate so that you burn fat faster all day long • How to set up a very simple meal plan that any busy woman could stick with • How to achieve healthy weight loss by choosing the right food combinations • The main factors that make weight loss for women harder than for men – and what you can do to combat these • How to incorporate your favorite foods into your diet and still see fast weight loss results • How to design an exercise weight loss plan for women that will work at home or in the gym - and still allow enough time to live your life • and much more! Weight Loss For Women is a complete approach that is going to bond together mindset, proper nutrition, and effective exercise to help you achieve lasting weight loss that not only has you looking better than you have before, but also has you feeling healthier. Without health, no amount of weight loss matters, so you need to start focusing away from quick-fix ‘diets’ and start focusing on healthy weight loss approaches. Weight Loss For Women is the only approach you need.

Simple, but HARD
Simple, but HARD

Author: Scott Strubel

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2024-06-03

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 1663263140

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A gripping memoir of one person’s rise from poverty to leading sales organizations for five pioneering technology companies. This is a story of how eleven childhood jobs from age nine to eighteen provided the motivation and work ethic to rise through sales organizations to lead sales and channel teams around the world. In this collection of stories from his first sixty years, Strubel explores how his childhood shaped his adult life. His stories cover how his father became the first in his family to attend college, then lost his business and the family home after falling on hard times. And how his mom went back to work at minimum wage until a head-on collision ended her ability to work. Strubel put himself through college while hitchhiking home on weekends to spend time with his younger sisters. He joined the original Silicon Valley startup who allowed him to work as a co-op every other semester through college, and then joined them for twenty-seven years after he graduated from Indiana University. Simple, But Hard tells stories of love and loss, of pain and laughter. Stories of luck and hard work and how both led him from a restaurant dishwasher to become the chief commercial officer of a multi-billion-dollar company. This book will take the reader around the world in a wide range of topics told in short stories.

The Senses in Self, Culture, and Society
The Senses in Self, Culture, and Society

Author: Phillip Vannini

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011-10-15

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 0415879922

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The Senses in Self, Culture, and Society is the definitive guide to the sociological and anthropological study of the senses. Vannini, Waskul, and Gottschalk provide a comprehensive map of the social and cultural significance of the senses that is woven in a thorough analytical review of classical, recent, and emerging scholarship and grounded in original empirical data that deepens the review and analysis. By bridging cultural/qualitative sociology and cultural/humanistic anthropology The Senses in Self, Culture, and Sociology explicitly blurs boundaries which, in this field, are particularly weak due to the ethnographic scope of much research. Serving both the sociological and anthropological constituencies at once means bridging ethnographic traditions, cultural foci, and socio-ecological approaches to embodiment and sensuousness. The Senses in Self, Culture, and Society is intended to be a milestone in the social sciences somatic turn.

Poems and Songs The Cosmo's Garrison
Poems and Songs The Cosmo's Garrison

Author: Roland E. McLean

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2024-01-29

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13:

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Life in the ghettos is a struggle everyday, and youths around the world are trapped in garrisons, music dances, songs and poetry are the only escape for the children of the ghetto. This book is livicated to all the youthman of the world living in the garrison, we pray for more love in the cosmos garrison.

The Wisdom of Aramis
The Wisdom of Aramis

Author: Elia Pekica Pagon

Publisher: Balboa Press

Published: 2018-12-12

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 1982217472

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The new book of essays by poet and publicist Elia Pekica Pagon titled The Wisdom of Aramis talks about real-life treasures as opposed to false ones. It emphasizes all that really matters in life through simple truths from our everyday lives. The Wisdom of Aramis provides us with profound messages drawn from the lessons we can learn from our best friends and most devoted companions, our furry angels. It is a book dedicated to the author’s beloved pug, Aramis Giving of Good, who will always stay in her heart and who will fill the hearts of the readers with such a great sentiment of love, peace, tolerance, and compassion. The book talks about the joy of unconditional love, about deep compassion and inner peace, about the importance of acceptance and sincere kindness, about the magic of patience and miraculous coincidences. The book gives us the chance to discover a better world and a better version of ourselves through our self-awareness through which we can truly get to know ourselves, find our place in this world and beyond, and live in perfect harmony with nature and the entire universe. There is so much to learn from our pets. Everything we love about them is what we miss most in our lives, and that is true friendship—a pair of sincere eyes, a face without a social mask, someone to be here for us when no one else is, someone to understand us and love us unconditionally. We enjoy their company because they help us be who we really are, and they teach us how to enjoy our lives and this world in such a lovely way. Our beloved companions help us find our inner peace, and that’s exactly how we can establish universal peace—by bringing peace into our lives.