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Author: Gina Maranto
Publisher: Dissertation.com
Published: 2000-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780595008056
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAble to tinker with embryos and alter their genetic material, scientists are ushering in the age of designer babies. Quest for Perfection charts reproductive medicine's past and future. In the journal Nature, geneticist Benno Muller-Hill advised that the book's last line should be heeded by everyone involved in this field.
Author: Debora L. Spar
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2013-09-17
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1429944536
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFifty years after the Equal Pay Act, why are women still living in a man's world? Debora L. Spar never thought of herself as a feminist. Raised after the tumult of the 1960s, she presumed the gender war was over. As one of the youngest female professors to be tenured at Harvard Business School and a mother of three, she swore to young women that they could have it all. "We thought we could just glide into the new era of equality, with babies, board seats, and husbands in tow," she writes. "We were wrong." Now she is the president of Barnard College, arguably the most important all-women's college in the United States. And in Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection—a fresh, wise, original book— she asks why, a half century after the publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, do women still feel stuck. In this groundbreaking and compulsively readable book, Spar explores how American women's lives have—and have not—changed over the past fifty years. Armed with reams of new research, she details how women struggled for power and instead got stuck in an endless quest for perfection. The challenges confronting women are more complex than ever, and they are challenges that come inherently and inevitably from being female. Spar is acutely aware that it's time to change course. Both deeply personal and statistically rich, Wonder Women is Spar's story and the story of our culture. It is cultural history at its best, and a road map for the future.
Author: Rene Stauffer
Publisher: New Chapter Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0942257391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRegarded by many as the greatest tennis player in the history of the sport, this authoritative biography is based on many exclusive interviews with Federer and his family as well as the author's experience covering the international tennis circuit for many years. Completely comprehensive, it provides an informed account of the Swiss tennis star from his early days as a temperamental player on the junior circuit, through his early professional career, to his winning major tennis tournaments, including the U.S. Open and Wimbledon. Readers will appreciate the anecdotes about his early years, revel in the insider's view of the professional tennis circuit, and be inspired by this champion's rise to the top of his game.
Author: Bryan Baggenstos
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2018-06-07
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 1387865226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book includes a number of talks and spiritual thoughts that I have given as I have worked in Gods service through many callings in the LDS Church. Use it as a resource as you study and ponder the divine. I hope that it gives new perspective and added insights to common teachings. The scriptures are full of amazing stories. Each of which have many different meanings and lessons to be learned. I hope the perspectives in this book help you to see these stories from new angles. I hope they ignite your curiosity. I hope they help you develop a habit of pondering the mysteries of God. I hope the thoughts bring you closer to God and help you deepen your relationship with Him. One of the great gifts our Heavenly Father has given us is the opportunity to search out His mysteries. May you ever find joy in this pursuit.
Author: Kent L. Yinger
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2019-10-22
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1498243673
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe language of perfection crops up regularly in the Bible, from Noah ("a just man and perfect in his generations," KJV) to Jesus ("be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly father is perfect," NRSV). Is flawless behavior what God expects, the only standard of righteousness that can satisfy him? Jewish tradition has long questioned this Christian assumption. Since Sanders and the New Perspective on Paul, it has come under increasing challenge from many directions. In Reclaiming Human Wholeness, Kent Yinger provides an in-depth examination of what the Bible intends with this perfection-wholeness language and of its impact on theology and spiritual life. Rather than calling to an unreachable perfection, the God of the Bible desires our flourishing and wholeness.
Author: Maggie Daniels
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-03-15
Total Pages: 524
ISBN-13: 1136349146
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWedding Planning and Management provides a comprehensive introduction to the planning and management of weddings. Looking through an event management lens, Maggie Daniels and Carrie Loveless thoroughly explore the foundations, practice, and business of wedding planning. They include over 50 case studies, provide planning checklists, and set standards for best practice. The emphasis on diversity encompasses traditions from cultures around the globe. The book is designed so that consultants, brides, grooms, vendors, scholars, and those simply fascinated by weddings can appreciate and apply the material. Visually stunning with over 150 images captured by award winning photojournalist Rodney Bailey, the full color pages lavishly illustrate concepts and spark the imagination. Award Winning Book, Best of Category: http://www.bbboston.org/pageAboutUs_BookShowWinners.cfm'showYear=2008 As featured on ABC News Nightline and United Press International
Author: Dylan Wong Xuan Kai
Publisher: Dylan Wong Xuan Kai
Published: 2024-08-13
Total Pages: 486
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOlympics. Olympians. What talent, what honour, what glory, what respect; belonging, only to a selected few. Why can't every human be that amazing? What's limiting them? What's missing in their lives? Why can't every human become the dream idol that they've always wished to be? In a journey across infinite stars, I seek the answers to humanity's greatest strengths and weaknesses. Timeless explorations presents opportunities to understand humanity. But what disturbs me most, is the many distressing voices that goes unheard, only to fade away with time or … life. Why do I hear cries, echoing across many worlds? From where do these voices emerge? For whom or what do they cry? Are those cries of pain, from cries of losses? Or cries of disappointment, in cries of hopelessness? It's hard to say, too many to count. Every cry is different, unique to each story. All I can sense, is their wailing sufferings; arising, from the worldly imperfections. It is my humble wish is to free 'everything' from suffering, in a world where all will be loved the same way. And so, begins the tale of a hermit and a fool, in their quest to discover and forge a new perfection; for the sake of humanity; for the sake of our beloved mother nature; for the sake of all that lives; and for the sake of the universe that gives us hope and life. Wonder no more if I am the hermit, because I might just be, the fool you never expected. So promise me, read me, understand me, accept me, and seek the ultimate truth to perfection in this fantastic voyage across the stars and galaxies and beyond. Together, let us begin our journey in finding your newfound strength, and bring more awareness and wisdom to everyone as we challenge the the devil on our shoulders with our new awakening and enlightenment. Together, we'll not fail! With love, for all that lives! To become, the best Olympians we can ever be! Love, Respect, Unity
Author: Rev. Michael E. Connors, CSC
Publisher: Liturgy Training Publications
Published: 2021-01-25
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1618333208
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEffective Preaching: Bringing People into an Encounter with God is a practical collection of essays, featuring leading preachers, homilists and homily instructors. Compiled by Michael E. Connors, CSC, the Director of the John Marten Program in Homiletics and Liturgics at the University of Notre Dame, this imaginative book focuses entirely on the practical side of Catholic preaching. It will provide imaginative, hands-on, tested advice to help homilists develop preaching effectiveness, using techniques that will turn satisfactory preaching into exceptional preaching. This practical resource will be essential for priests, permanent deacons, seminarians in homiletics classes; retreat leaders, RCIA catechists; all who preach.
Author: Nick J. Watson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0415899222
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis interdisciplinary text examines the sports-Christianity interface from Protestant and Catholic perspectives. In addition to a "systematic review of literature," the contributors, who include many of the pioneers in the field, address a wide range of topics. These include biblical athletic metaphors, disability, evangelism, professionalism and celebrity, humility, the Vatican's perspective on sport and genetic enhancement technologies.
Author: Robert S. Perinbanayagam
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-11-17
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1317259378
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This is a powerful, richly nuanced, evocative work; a stunning and brilliantly innovative pedagogical intervention. It provides ground zero-the starting place for the next generation of theorists who study the self, narrative theory, and the place of games and sport in everyday life. A stunning accomplishment by one of America's major social theorists." Norman K. Denzin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Games of many kinds have been played in all cultures throughout human history. This wide-ranging book explores the social and psychological processes involved in the playing of games. One player (or team) seeks to outwit another by undertaking various physical and communicative moves-not unlike conversations. Games have well-formed "narrative" structures, analogous to myths, that are enacted by each participant to give play to his/her self and its attendant emotions. These plays of the self enable each agent to seek adventures and heroic moments. Going beyond the mythmaking and catharsis that may be achieved by individuals, the author shows how games have been devised and played in particular societies and eras as means of promoting specific ideologies of a society, even social ideals such as utopias.
