Standing on Her Shoulders
Standing on Her Shoulders

Author: Monica Clark-Robinson

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2021-02-16

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 1338783556

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A stunning love letter to the important women who shape us -- from our own mothers and grandmothers to the legends who paved the way for girls and women everywhere. Standing on Her Shoulders a celebration of the strong women who influence us -- from our mothers, sisters, aunts, and grandmothers to the women who fought for equality and acceptance in the United States. Monica Clark-Robinson's lyrical text encourages young girls to learn about the powerful and trailblazing women who laid the path for their own lives and empowers them to become role models themselves. Acclaimed illustrator Laura Freeman's remarkable art showcases a loving intergenerational family and encourages girls to find female heroes in their own lives. Standing on Her Shoulders will inspire girls of all ages to follow in the footsteps of these amazing women.

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Author: Steven Brooks

Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers

Published: 2008-12-28

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 0768496438

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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants is a book that opens up the vastly unexplored subject of mantles. Just as Elijah passed on his mantle (his anointing) to Elisha, we see clearly through the pages of this book just exactly how mantles are transferred, received, and imparted through the workings of the Holy Spirit. This fascinating topic is highlighted by biblical illustrations, modern day stories, and the author's own extraordinary personal testimony. This book is essential reading for those who desire to be positioned for the soon coming move of God that is destined to break upon the Church with an unprecedented deluge of God's glory, His cleansing fire, and an enormous harvest of souls that will be of epic proportions.

The Great Mental Models, Volume 1
The Great Mental Models, Volume 1

Author: Shane Parrish

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2024-10-15

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0593719972

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Discover the essential thinking tools you’ve been missing with The Great Mental Models series by Shane Parrish, New York Times bestselling author and the mind behind the acclaimed Farnam Street blog and “The Knowledge Project” podcast. This first book in the series is your guide to learning the crucial thinking tools nobody ever taught you. Time and time again, great thinkers such as Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett have credited their success to mental models–representations of how something works that can scale onto other fields. Mastering a small number of mental models enables you to rapidly grasp new information, identify patterns others miss, and avoid the common mistakes that hold people back. The Great Mental Models: Volume 1, General Thinking Concepts shows you how making a few tiny changes in the way you think can deliver big results. Drawing on examples from history, business, art, and science, this book details nine of the most versatile, all-purpose mental models you can use right away to improve your decision making and productivity. This book will teach you how to: Avoid blind spots when looking at problems. Find non-obvious solutions. Anticipate and achieve desired outcomes. Play to your strengths, avoid your weaknesses, … and more. The Great Mental Models series demystifies once elusive concepts and illuminates rich knowledge that traditional education overlooks. This series is the most comprehensive and accessible guide on using mental models to better understand our world, solve problems, and gain an advantage.

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Author: Søren Frank

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-06-21

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1408187434

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An intelligent and thought-provoking narrative of Manchester United exploring its cultural history within the broader cultural framework of globalization, working class traditions, mythology and the Munich Air Disaster, and pop culture. A unique thematic history of Manchester United from the club's creation as humble Newton Heath in 1878 to its status as the world's greatest football brand, this book gets to the essence of the heart and soul of the club. Key topics explored include the club's ability to rise from the ashes, commitment to youth, propensity for an adventurous style of football, glamour, and commercialization and aggressive marketing. Søren Frank introduces a football aesthetics that examines and discusses what sets Manchester United apart in regard to football philosophy. It contains microanalyses of some of the most fascinating matches or moments, as well as original portraits of some of the club's greatest players, all of this peppered with fascinating statistical facts in the club's history.

Standing on Shoulders
Standing on Shoulders

Author: Peter Bachmann

Publisher: 260 Productions

Published: 2012-08

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9780983736417

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Imagine a classroom where books and ideas from the world’s greatest minds are freely examined in lively discussions. Fill that classroom with a wide range of students spanning a 25-year period. Sit in on a candid conversation between these bright, young thinkers, and see where their insights take you. In Standing on Shoulders, Peter Bachmann embarks on just such an invigorating liberal arts journey, and invites us to join the exploration. Using material gleaned from over 400 student papers from the Great Books class he teaches at Flintridge Preparatory School, Bachman weaves together a virtual dialogue between himself and his students that transcends time and place. Together they examine the pertinence of past wisdom to the complex digital age of today, questioning and affirming the relevance of Aristotle, Shakespeare, Thoreau, and others as they attempt to define “the good life.” Thinkers from all walks of life and educational backgrounds will find relevance and resonance in these dialogues, and may well begin to reexamine the world’s oldest questions from a fresh, individual perspective.

Standing on Shoulders
Standing on Shoulders

Author: Jack Maher

Publisher: Archway Publishing

Published: 2019-01-24

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 1480869805

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Transforming our organizations to compete and thrive in today’s digital age requires a combination of “old world thinking” of quality and differentiation and “new world thinking” of meeting your market where it wants to be. But making your organization “digital” is a lot more than creating a compelling mobile app and moving to the cloud. To thrive in the new marketplace, you must think and act differently. In this leader’s guide to digital transformation, you’ll get practical, actionable information on building an employee and customer-obsessed culture that drives speed and efficiency while leveraging technology to sell better products and services. The guide will teach you how to: understand, articulate, and analyze the value you offer customers; get development and operations to work better together; persuade employees to do things differently; and solve problems in new and creative ways. Whether you work for a small, medium-sized, or large organization, you’ll get meaningful guidance on overcoming obstacles that thwart success by learning from others.

Mapping Scientific Frontiers
Mapping Scientific Frontiers

Author: Chaomei Chen

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-07-30

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 1447151283

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This is an examination of the history and the state of the art of the quest for visualizing scientific knowledge and the dynamics of its development. Through an interdisciplinary perspective this book presents profound visions, pivotal advances, and insightful contributions made by generations of researchers and professionals, which portrays a holistic view of the underlying principles and mechanisms of the development of science. This updated and extended second edition: highlights the latest advances in mapping scientific frontiers examines the foundations of strategies, principles, and design patterns provides an integrated and holistic account of major developments across disciplinary boundaries “Anyone who tries to follow the exponential growth of the literature on citation analysis and scientometrics knows how difficult it is to keep pace. Chaomei Chen has identified the significant methods and applications in visual graphics and made them clear to the uninitiated. Derek Price would have loved this book which not only pays homage to him but also to the key players in information science and a wide variety of others in the sociology and history of science.” – Eugene Garfield “This is a wide ranging book on information visualization, with a specific focus on science mapping. Science mapping is still in its infancy and many intellectual challenges remain to be investigated and many of which are outlined in the final chapter. In this new edition Chaomei Chen has provided an essential text, useful both as a primer for new entrants and as a comprehensive overview of recent developments for the seasoned practitioner.” – Henry Small Chaomei Chen is a Professor in the College of Information Science and Technology at Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA, and a ChangJiang Scholar at Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Information Visualization and the author of Turning Points: The Nature of Creativity (Springer, 2012) and Information Visualization: Beyond the Horizon (Springer, 2004, 2006).

Standing on My Brother's Shoulders
Standing on My Brother's Shoulders

Author: Tara J Lal

Publisher: Watkins Media Limited

Published: 2015-09-15

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1780289049

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A suicide loss survivor tells her story. Tara Lal’s childhood was battered by her father’s mental illness and by her mother’s death when she was thirteen. Caught up in grief and despair, she developed a deep, caring bond with her charismatic and kind older brother Adam, though he struggled silently with growing anxiety and depression. Four years after their mother’s death, Adam committed suicide. Grief and insecurity threatened to engulf Tara, but eventually she found, through a dialogue with the words her brother left behind in his diaries, her reason to live. The book includes an Afterword on the possibilities for recovery and growth following a tragedy, written by Miriam Akhtar, author of Positive Psychology for Overcoming Depression.

On the Shoulders of Giants
On the Shoulders of Giants

Author: Umberto Eco

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2019-10-22

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0674242270

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A posthumous collection of essays by one of our greatest contemporary thinkers that provides a towering vision of Western culture. In Umberto Eco’s first novel, The Name of the Rose, Nicholas of Morimondo laments, “We no longer have the learning of the ancients, the age of giants is past!” To which the protagonist, William of Baskerville, replies: “We are dwarfs, but dwarfs who stand on the shoulders of those giants, and small though we are, we sometimes manage to see farther on the horizon than they.” On the Shoulders of Giants is a collection of essays based on lectures Eco famously delivered at the Milanesiana Festival in Milan over the last fifteen years of his life. Previously unpublished, the essays explore themes he returned to again and again in his writing: the roots of Western culture and the origin of language, the nature of beauty and ugliness, the potency of conspiracies, the lure of mysteries, and the imperfections of art. Eco examines the dynamics of creativity and considers how every act of innovation occurs in conversation with a superior ancestor. In these playful, witty, and breathtakingly erudite essays, we encounter an intellectual who reads comic strips, reflects on Heraclitus, Dante, and Rimbaud, listens to Carla Bruni, and watches Casablanca while thinking about Proust. On the Shoulders of Giants reveals both the humor and the colossal knowledge of a contemporary giant.

On the Shoulders of Giants
On the Shoulders of Giants

Author: Stephen W. Hawking

Publisher: Penguin Books

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 1264

ISBN-13: 9780141015712

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Stephen Hawking explains how such great men of science as Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton and Einstein built on the discoveries of those who came before them, and how these works changed the course of science, ushering astronomy and physics out of the Middle Ages and into the modern world.