Beyond The Fray A Life Story Of Triumph Over Tragedy
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Beyond The Fray A Life Story Of Triumph Over Tragedy
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Author : Nicholas B. Ibarra
language : en
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Release Date : 2015-08-20
Beyond The Fray A Life Story Of Triumph Over Tragedy written by Nicholas B. Ibarra and has been published by Dog Ear Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-20 with Self-Help categories.
On New Year's Day of 2012, Springfield, Missouri City Councilman Nicholas B. Ibarra was unaware that he would be resigning in a matter of days. His name had made headline news for weeks regarding an altercation with constituents a month prior, and he was again about to be engrossed in media reports because of a second incident, this time domestic, that would alter the course of his life. As he lay in a jail cell with nothing but his thoughts, he realized he was on a quick path to becoming something he feared most: A failure. In what he considers the longest day of his life, as he sat in a jail cell, he analyzed what his life had been up to that point and what needed to happen if he was to alter its current course. From childhood tragedies to his experience in Iraq, from barely graduating high school to becoming a city councilman in the third largest city in Missouri, and from sitting in jail to being given a life of great fulfillment, Beyond the Fray offers a story of inspiration to those who believe in the strength of the human spirit and its ability to overcome all obstacles through sincere faith, clear determination, close family, and the truest of friends. Ibarra concludes his story in a final chapter with a detailed discussion of ten principles he has found and used to transform his life to one of emotional gratitude, physical serenity, and spiritual fulfillment after years of struggling with PTSD, depression, and dependency. It is his hope that he will impart to readers a realization that they and their loved ones are not alone in facing similar struggles and likewise can go "beyond the fray."
Tragedy And Triumph In Orbit
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Author : Ben Evans
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-06-01
Tragedy And Triumph In Orbit written by Ben Evans and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-01 with Technology & Engineering categories.
April 12, 2011 is the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering journey into space. To commemorate this momentous achievement, Springer-Praxis is producing a mini series of books that reveals how humanity’s knowledge of flying, working, and living in space has grown in the last half century. “Tragedy and Triumph” focuses on the 1980s and early 1990s, a time when relations between the United States and the Soviet Union swung like a pendulum between harmony and outright hostility. The glorious achievements of the shuttle were violently arrested by the devastating loss of Challenger in 1986, while the Soviet program appeared to prosper with the last Salyut and the next-generation Mir orbital station. This book explores the continued rivalry between the two superpowers during this period, with each attempting to outdo the other – the Americans keen to build a space station, the Soviets keen to build a space shuttle – and places their efforts in the context of a bitterly divisive decade, which ultimately led them into partnership.
From An Existential Vacuum To A Tragic Optimism
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Author : Barbara A. Heavilin
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2014-07-03
From An Existential Vacuum To A Tragic Optimism written by Barbara A. Heavilin and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-03 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
From an Existential Vacuum to a Tragic Optimism: The Search for Meaning and the Presence of God in Modern Literature employs a new theoretical approach to critical analysis: Victor Frankl’s logotherapy (from the Greek “logos” for word or reason and often related to divine wisdom), a unique form of existentialism. On the basis of his observations of the power of human endurance and transcendence – the discovery of meaning even in the midst of harrowing circumstances – Frankl diagnoses the malaise of the current age as an “existential vacuum,” a sense of meaninglessness. He suggests that a panacea for this malaise may be found in creativity, love, and moral choice – even when faced with suffering or death. He affirms that human beings may transcend this vacuum, discover meaning – or even ultimate meaning to be found in Ultimate Being, or God – and live with a sense of “tragic optimism.” This book observes both the current age’s “existential vacuum” – a malaise of emptiness and meaninglessness – and its longing for meaning and God as reflected in three genres: poetry, novel, and fantasy. Part I, “Reflections of God in the Poetic Vision,” addresses “tragic optimism” – hope when there seems to be no reason for hope – in poems by William Butler Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. Part II, “American Angst: Emptiness and Possibility in John Steinbeck’s Major Novels,” presents a study of Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, and The Winter of Our Discontent – novels that together form a uniquely American epic trilogy. Together these novels tell the story of a nation’s avarice, corruption, and betrayal offset by magnanimity, heroism, and hospitality. Set against the backdrop of Frankl’s ways of finding meaning and fulfillment – all obliquely implying the felt presence of God – the characters are representative Every Americans, in whose lives are reflected a nation’s worst vices and best hopes. Part III, “A Tragic Optimism: The Triumph of Good in the Fantasy Worlds of Tolkien, Lewis, and Rowling,” defines fantasy and science fiction as mirrors with which to view reality. J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, C. S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength, and J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series are considered in the light of Frankl’s logotherapy – providing paths to meaning and the ultimate meaning to be found in God. In a postmodern, fragmented age, these works affirm a continuing vision of God (often through His felt absence) and, also, a most human yearning for meaning even when there seems to be none – providing, as Frankl maintains, “a tragic optimism.”
Silver Lake Bohemia A History
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Author : Michael Locke and Vincent Brook
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2016
Silver Lake Bohemia A History written by Michael Locke and Vincent Brook and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with History categories.
Since the early 1900s, Silver Lake has been a magnet for iconoclastic writers, architects and political activists. Famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, who designed the Hollyhock House for socialist and oil heiress Aline Barnsdall, drew a wave of visionary modernists to the area. Local civil rights advocate Loren Miller spearheaded the fight against housing discrimination. Silver Lake's Black Cat bar and Harry Hay's Mattachine Society were central to the early gay rights movement. Literary artists Anäis Nin and James Leo Herlihy made the neighborhood their home, as did other notables like first lady of baseball Effa Manley and "Hobo Millionaire" James Eads How. Michael Locke and Vincent Brook chronicle these and other people and places that helped make Silver Lake the bohemian epicenter of Los Angeles.
Being Your Best Collection 6 Books Hbr Emotional Intelligence Series
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Author : Harvard Business Review
language : en
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Release Date : 2023-01-24
Being Your Best Collection 6 Books Hbr Emotional Intelligence Series written by Harvard Business Review and has been published by Harvard Business Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-24 with Business & Economics categories.
Manage your energy—and your mood. How to be human at work. HBR's Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books explore the self-awareness and well-being skills that are critical to ambitious professionals who want to sustain their energy and productivity and bring the best version of themselves to work every day—even during difficult times. This specially priced, six-volume set includes: Energy + Motivation Resilience Self-Awareness Purpose Meaning + Passion Happiness Confidence
The Triumph Tragedy And Lost Legacy Of James M Landis
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Author : Justin O'Brien
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-11-13
The Triumph Tragedy And Lost Legacy Of James M Landis written by Justin O'Brien and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-13 with Law categories.
James M Landis – scholar, administrator, advocate and political adviser – is known for his seminal contribution to the creation of the modern system of market regulation in the USA. As a highly influential participant in the politics of the New Deal he drafted the statute which was to become the foundation for securities regulation in the US, and by extension the founding principle of financial market regulation across the world. He was also a complex and in some ways tragic figure, whose glittering career collapsed following the revelation that he had failed to pay tax for a five year period in the 1950s. The oversight was to cost possible elevation to the Supreme Court, forced prosecution and sentencing in 1963 to one month's imprisonment, commuted to forced hospitalisation, and subsequent suspension of licence to practise. This candid and revealing book sets his life in the context of his work as an academic, legislative draftsman, administrator and Dean of Harvard Law School. In rescuing from history Landis's battles and achievements in regulatory design, theory and practice, it speaks directly to the perennial problems in financial market regulation - how to deal with institutions deemed too big to fail, how to regulate the sale of complex financial instruments and what role can the professions play as gatekeepers of market integrity. It argues that in failing to learn from the lessons of history we limit the capacity of regulatory intervention to facilitate cultural change, without which contemporary responses to financial crises are destined to fail.
The Triumph Of Realism In Elizabethan Drama 1558 1612
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Author : Willard Thorp
language : en
Publisher: Ardent Media
Release Date : 1965
The Triumph Of Realism In Elizabethan Drama 1558 1612 written by Willard Thorp and has been published by Ardent Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with English drama categories.
Drinking At The Movies
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Author : Julia Wertz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Drinking At The Movies written by Julia Wertz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Alcoholism categories.
Julia Wertz is the anti-Bridget Jones; her diary comics are filled with life's real and often really hilarious moments.
The Morality Of Everyday Life
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Author : Thomas Fleming
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2004
The Morality Of Everyday Life written by Thomas Fleming and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Philosophy categories.
Fleming offers an alternative to enlightened liberalism, where moral and political problems are looked at from an objective point of view and a decision made from a distant perspective that is both rational and universally applied to all comparable cases. He instead places importance on the particular, the local, and moral complexity, advocating a return to premodern traditions for a solution to ethical predicaments. In his view, liberalism and postmodernism ignore the fact that human beings by their very nature refuse to live in a world of abstractions where the attachments of friends, neighbors, family, and country make no difference. Fleming believes that a modern type of "casuistry" should be applied to moral conflicts, using examples from history, literature, and religion to explain this moral ecology that refuses to divorce organisms from their interactions with each other and with their environment.
In Triumph S Wake
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Author : Julia P. Gelardi
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2009-12-08
In Triumph S Wake written by Julia P. Gelardi and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-08 with History categories.
The powerful and moving story of three royal mothers whose quest for power led to the downfall of their daughters. Queen Isabella of Castile, Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, and Queen Victoria of England were respected and admired rulers whose legacies continue to be felt today. Their daughters—Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England; Queen Marie Antoinette of France; and Vicky, the Empress Frederick of Germany—are equally legendary for the tragedies that befell them, their roles in history surpassed by their triumphant mothers. In Triumph's Wake is the first book to bring together the poignant stories of these mothers and daughters in a single narrative. Isabella of Castile forged a united Spain and presided over the discovery of the New World, Maria Theresa defeated her male rivals to claim the Imperial Crown, and Victoria presided over the British Empire. But, because of their ambition and political machinations, each mother pushed her daughter toward a marital alliance that resulted in disaster. Catherine of Aragon was cruelly abandoned by Henry VIII who cast her aside in search of a male heir and tore England away from the Pope. Marie Antoinette lost her head on the guillotine when France exploded into Revolution and the Reign of Terror. Vicky died grief-stricken, horrified at her inability to prevent her son, Kaiser Wilhelm, from setting Germany on a belligerent trajectory that eventually led to war. Exhaustively researched and utterly compelling, In Triumph's Wake is the story of three unusually strong women and the devastating consequences their decisions had on the lives of their equally extraordinary daughters.