Natalie Wood (Turner Classic Movies)

Natalie Wood (Turner Classic Movies)

Author: Manoah Bowman

Publisher: Running Press Adult

Published: 2016-10-11

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0762460512

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"The first family-authorized photographic study of Natalie Wood, and the first book to examine her glamorous film career as well as her private, off-screen life as a wife and mother"--Front jacket flap.


Reflections of a Warrior

Reflections of a Warrior

Author: Elwood J.C. Kureth

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2007-11-01

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1416598359

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Reflections of a Warrior is a Medal of Honor winner's true story—a Green Beret's six deadly years in the killing fields of Vietnam. PFC Franklin Miller arrived in Vietnam in March 1966, and saw his first combat in a Reconnaissance Platoon. So began an odyssey that would make him into one of the most feared and respected men in the Special Forces elite, who made their own rules in the chaos of war. In the exclusive world of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, Studies and Observation Group, Miller ran missions deep into enemy territory to gather intelligence, snatch prisoners, and to kill. Leading small bands of battle-hardened Montagnard and Meo tribesmen, he was fierce and fearless—fighting army policy to stay in combat for six tours. On a top-secret mission in 1970, Miller and a handful of men, all critically injured, held off the NVA in an incredible Alamo-like stand—for which he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. When his time in Southeast Asia ended, he had also received the Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, an Air Medal, and six Purple Hearts. This is his incredible story.


The Secret of Our Success

The Secret of Our Success

Author: Joseph Henrich

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2017-10-17

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 0691178437

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How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosper Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a vast range of diverse environments. What has enabled us to dominate the globe, more than any other species, while remaining virtually helpless as lone individuals? This book shows that the secret of our success lies not in our innate intelligence, but in our collective brains—on the ability of human groups to socially interconnect and learn from one another over generations. Drawing insights from lost European explorers, clever chimpanzees, mobile hunter-gatherers, neuroscientific findings, ancient bones, and the human genome, Joseph Henrich demonstrates how our collective brains have propelled our species' genetic evolution and shaped our biology. Our early capacities for learning from others produced many cultural innovations, such as fire, cooking, water containers, plant knowledge, and projectile weapons, which in turn drove the expansion of our brains and altered our physiology, anatomy, and psychology in crucial ways. Later on, some collective brains generated and recombined powerful concepts, such as the lever, wheel, screw, and writing, while also creating the institutions that continue to alter our motivations and perceptions. Henrich shows how our genetics and biology are inextricably interwoven with cultural evolution, and how culture-gene interactions launched our species on an extraordinary evolutionary trajectory. Tracking clues from our ancient past to the present, The Secret of Our Success explores how the evolution of both our cultural and social natures produce a collective intelligence that explains both our species' immense success and the origins of human uniqueness.


The Life We Never Expected

The Life We Never Expected

Author: Andrew Wilson

Publisher: Crossway

Published: 2016-06-14

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1433551020

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Sometimes life throws you a curveball. Andrew and Rachel Wilson know what it means to live a life they never expected. As the parents of two children with special needs, their story mingles deep pain with deep joy in unexpected places. With raw honesty, they share about the challenges they face on a daily basis—all the while teaching what it means to weep, worship, wait, and hope in the Lord. Offering encouragement rooted in God's Word, this book will help you cling to Jesus and fight for joy when faced with a life you never expected.


Assholes

Assholes

Author: Aaron James

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2012-10-30

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 0385535686

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In the spirit of the mega-selling On Bullshit, philosopher Aaron James presents a theory of the asshole that is both intellectually provocative and existentially necessary. What does it mean for someone to be an asshole? The answer is not obvious, despite the fact that we are often personally stuck dealing with people for whom there is no better name. Try as we might to avoid them, assholes are found everywhere—at work, at home, on the road, and in the public sphere. Encountering one causes great difficulty and personal strain, especially because we often cannot understand why exactly someone should be acting like that. Asshole management begins with asshole understanding. Much as Machiavelli illuminated political strategy for princes, this book finally gives us the concepts to think or say why assholes disturb us so, and explains why such people seem part of the human social condition, especially in an age of raging narcissism and unbridled capitalism. These concepts are also practically useful, as understanding the asshole we are stuck with helps us think constructively about how to handle problems he (and they are mostly all men) presents. We get a better sense of when the asshole is best resisted, and when he is best ignored—a better sense of what is, and what is not, worth fighting for.


Reflection

Reflection

Author: Lyngdoh Peinlang

Publisher: Partridge Publishing

Published: 2020-01-15

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 1543702562

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We all read books and we all fall in love with some particular books as we read them. But we do not read all the books. There are many reasons why we read a particular book. One day this thought came to my mind. Just as we select books to read we also choose a love partner. There are many ways in which we can compare between how we choose to read a book and how we choose our life partner. The following are some of the steps involved when choosing a book which we can apply the same while choosing our life partner.


Reflections of the Heart

Reflections of the Heart

Author: LeRon E. Easley

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2013-01-10

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 1479757020

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Reflections never fade they are only transparent and every time you look deep enough into your heart you never see what you really want but only a reflection and in due time your true desires would show itself to you and no longer be just a transparent reflection. Every day we make the connection by touching. It becomes a growth process where we learn to understand one another; those contributions that we make are the distinct pieces of ourselvesthose things that expand our thoughts, feelings, and emotions. The experiences of today are just more stumbling blocks I must succeed in order to venture anywhere closer towards my endeavors; the objective is more than just making it. Its turning a bad situation around in order to create something worthwhile. Rememberinginstills the desire to think about those pleasant things that at one time enriched our lives, feeling ---touches upon the core of what had existed, reminding the heart of all that was---and all that is real. These things enables a person to understand what was then and what is now. Instilling the sense of direction towards what is to come. Being---is the acknowledgement of oneself. It is a measure that characterizes not only the structure of that individual. It also focuses on set reservations and intent upon ones life. In this book we will come to know one another, well come to learn that as well as the world revolves around us, so do we evolve around each other. LeRon Easley LeRon Everett Easley began writing in an effort to assist others who were literally challenged in order to help them construct emotional packed letters to their family and loved ones. He envisioned how distant people were apart from one another within those relationships they shared and created a tool that would empower people to communicate what he believed that others felt inside. LeRon Everett Easley is a man who rose from the pits of a correctional facility, having obtained a Bachelors Degree in Organizational Management. His passion has been to write various expressions based on thoughts, feelings and emotions and expressions that would give interpretation to what many of us would feel deep within our hearts. Winnifer Wilson Winnifer Wilson was born in Dayton Ohio Jan 22, 1959 under studied at South Western Business College. Ive always wanted to write Poetry or songs after the death of my youngest daughter with my granddaughter the pain was overwhelming so it encouraged me to put my pain to use. With LeRon Easley being my biggest inspiration. (Who is the author of this book) to help target our young adults who are the future for us all to stay in the right path of life, stay in school, stay focused and be yourself. With the help of my mentor LeRon who has helped me focus and think clearly about the things that I have endured in my life. One thing to remember in life is this Everything that you have went through and still going through makes you stronger even though it may seem like it gets worst at first. My hope is that one day all children will be able to create their wonders and live out their dreams.


Welcome to the Grief Club

Welcome to the Grief Club

Author: Janine Kwoh

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Published: 2022-02

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1523511710

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Welcome to the Grief Club - a place where one human who experienced a terrible loss, Janine Kwoh, is at the door to welcome other humans who are grieving. It is not an instruction manual, or a step-by-step playbook, or a memoir. It is, rather, a fresh, empathetic approach to all of the surprising, confusing, brutal, funny, and downright bizarre parts of grief. Combining her own experiences with grief - the author's partner died when both were in their late 20s - with what she learned from others in her 'grief club', Kwoh uses brief writings and observations, hand-drawn illustrations, and diagrams to explore all the different ways grief happens. Plus, wisdom and understanding in every line - there is no right or wrong way to grieve - and permission to grieve in whichever ways you need, for however long you need to. What to do when the world is your grief trigger. Signs you have grief brain. And gentle assurances: Grief isn't linear, but it does change and will soften over time. It is a book to put into the hands of anyone who is grieving, because from its very first page, that person will know they are no longer alone.