The Roots Of My Obsession
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The Roots Of My Obsession
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Author : Thomas C. Cooper
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-10-02
The Roots Of My Obsession written by Thomas C. Cooper and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-02 with Gardening categories.
Why would any sane person spend hours on hands and knees, courting aching joints and a ruined back, just to raise a bunch of plants? A rich, complex, and human answer can be found in the pages of The Roots of My Obsession.
Be Obsessed Or Be Average
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Author : Grant Cardone
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2016-10-11
Be Obsessed Or Be Average written by Grant Cardone and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-11 with Business & Economics categories.
From the millionaire entrepreneur and New York Times bestselling author of The 10X Rule comes a bold and contrarian wake-up call for anyone truly ready for success. One of the 7 best motivational books of 2016, according to Inc. Magazine. Before Grant Cardone built five successful companies (and counting), became a multimillionaire, and wrote bestselling books... he was broke, jobless, and drug-addicted. Grant had grown up with big dreams, but friends and family told him to be more reasonable and less demanding. If he played by the rules, they said, he could enjoy everyone else’s version of middle class success. But when he tried it their way, he hit rock bottom. Then he tried the opposite approach. He said NO to the haters and naysayers and said YES to his burning, outrageous, animal obsession. He reclaimed his obsession with wanting to be a business rock star, a super salesman, a huge philanthropist. He wanted to live in a mansion and even own an airplane. Obsession made all of his wildest dreams come true. And it can help you achieve massive success too. As Grant says, we're in the middle of an epidemic of average. The conventional wisdom is to seek balance and take it easy. But that has really just given us an excuse to be unexceptional. If you want real success, you have to know how to harness your obsession to rocket to the top. This book will give you the inspiration and tools to break out of your cocoon of mediocrity and achieve your craziest dreams. Grant will teach you how to: · Set crazy goals—and reach them, every single day. · Feed the beast: when you value money and spend it on the right things, you get more of it. · Shut down the doubters—and use your haters as fuel. Whether you're a sales person, small business owner, or 9-to-5 working stiff, your path to happiness runs though your obsessions. It's a simple choice: be obsessed or be average.
The Arbornaut
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Author : Meg Lowman
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2021-08-10
The Arbornaut written by Meg Lowman and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“An eye-opening and enchanting book by one of our major scientist-explorers.” —Diane Ackerman, author of The Zookeeper’s Wife Nicknamed the “Real-Life Lorax” by National Geographic, the biologist, botanist, and conservationist Meg Lowman—aka “CanopyMeg”—takes us on an adventure into the “eighth continent” of the world's treetops, along her journey as a tree scientist, and into climate action Welcome to the eighth continent! As a graduate student exploring the rain forests of Australia, Meg Lowman realized that she couldn’t monitor her beloved leaves using any of the usual methods. So she put together a climbing kit: she sewed a harness from an old seat belt, gathered hundreds of feet of rope, and found a tool belt for her pencils and rulers. Up she went, into the trees. Forty years later, Lowman remains one of the world’s foremost arbornauts, known as the “real-life Lorax.” She planned one of the first treetop walkways and helps create more of these bridges through the eighth continent all over the world. With a voice as infectious in its enthusiasm as it is practical in its optimism, The Arbornaut chronicles Lowman’s irresistible story. From climbing solo hundreds of feet into the air in Australia’s rainforests to measuring tree growth in the northeastern United States, from searching the redwoods of the Pacific coast for new life to studying leaf eaters in Scotland’s Highlands, from conducting a BioBlitz in Malaysia to conservation planning in India and collaborating with priests to save Ethiopia’s last forests, Lowman launches us into the life and work of a field scientist, ecologist, and conservationist. She offers hope, specific plans, and recommendations for action; despite devastation across the world, through trees, we can still make an immediate and lasting impact against climate change. A blend of memoir and fieldwork account, The Arbornaut gives us the chance to live among scientists and travel the world—even in a hot-air balloon! It is the engrossing, uplifting story of a nerdy tree climber—the only girl at the science fair—who becomes a giant inspiration, a groundbreaking, ground-defying field biologist, and a hero for trees everywhere. Includes black-and-white illustrations
My Obsession 4 God
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Author : Davie L. Woodard
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2009-05
My Obsession 4 God written by Davie L. Woodard and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Since the beginning a divine obsession came forth bringing something from nothingness, which evolved for hundreds of billions and trillions of light years away. So far that the distance is unreachable. Only through a compulsion shorter then a forth of a instant, out the midst grew an arousing feeling, And The once stillness began a frenzy of movement which produced an orgasm that released the sperms of time and space, which untwined faster than the speed of light into four never-ending directions. By a compulsion I was obsessed with a peculiar ability taking me in a different realm in which God makes himself known to me and brings me into his fold forever. As I grew into maturity my life was becoming much more aware of good and evil. And at the time I was becoming steadfastly enlightened with a spiritually enhanced compulsive desire to get ever so close with God by him manifesting himself in me and anointing my life with the power of four, and giving me a new name called Chesed, which would give me power, dominion and authority over the principalities of darkness. And walking in the light For The glory of God defending good against evil.
Unbuttoned
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Author : Sullivan Dana
language : en
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Release Date : 2010-10-14
Unbuttoned written by Sullivan Dana and has been published by ReadHowYouWant.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-14 with Health & Fitness categories.
Nursing a baby - it's the most simple, natural thing in the world, right? Then why is it so fraught and freighted for so many women? In Unbuttoned, a collection of essays edited by Dana Sullivan and Maureen Connolly, 25 women share their thoughts and feelings about breastfeeding, all from the standpoint of personal experience. By turns enlightening, entertaining, moving, and thought provoking, their stories are sure to get readers talking. The essays are as varied as women themselves. Best - selling author Julia Glass describes nursing her two sons after being treated for breast cancer. Rebecca Walker remembers breastfeeding her seriously ill baby in the neonatal intensive care unit. And humorist Suzanne Schlosberg milks the logistics of nursing twins for laughs, while columnist Patricia Berry defends her decision to bottle - feed her three daughters. Linda Murray, editor - in - chief ofBabyCenter.com, contributes a thoughtful foreword. The essays are organized in a way that echoes the chronology of the nursing experience itself. In Part One, Latching On, women share their stories about starting breastfeeding; by Part Four, Letting Go, they've moved on to the sometimes - wistful, sometimes - welcome process of weaning. In these pages are laughter and tears, love and longing, tenderness and temper tantrums - and above all, a multifaceted portrait of what it means to nurture a baby. Unbuttoned makes a wonderful gift for new or expectant mothers, not to mention their partners. It's also an intriguing selection for book groups or moms' groups, who will surely find much to discuss among the essays. Even women whose nursing days are well behind (or ahead) of them will find food for thought in this insightful collection.
One Artist One Material
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Author : Elena Castle, Kanae Hasegawa, Amara Holstein, Tracey Ingram, Sophie Lovell, Billy Nolan, Jonathan Openshaw, Inês Revés, Anna Sansom, Louise Schouwenberg, Jane Szita, Femke de Wild
language : en
Publisher: Frame Publishers
Release Date : 2018-09-25
One Artist One Material written by Elena Castle, Kanae Hasegawa, Amara Holstein, Tracey Ingram, Sophie Lovell, Billy Nolan, Jonathan Openshaw, Inês Revés, Anna Sansom, Louise Schouwenberg, Jane Szita, Femke de Wild and has been published by Frame Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-25 with Architecture categories.
Divided into six chapters, fifty-five artists talk about their material of choice. Does living in the digital age intensify our relationship with the material world? The success of One Artist, One Material, a regular feature section that has appeared in Frame magazine for over a decade, suggests that it does. An interview with a maker about his or her chosen material, it first appeared in Frame 65 (May/June 2007) and is still going strong. This book contains 55 of those interviews. Within the deceptively simple formula, dramatic, amusing, perplexing and humbling stories unfold. The subjects are enthusiastic about their chosen material to the point of monomania, spending long hours on eBay procuring vintage furniture (Michael Samuels), or behind a microscope arranging diatoms, which are invisible to the human eye (Klaus Kemp), or tracing huge yet transient patterns in sand or snow (Jim Denevan and Simon Beck, respectively). A material’s simplicity often bears no relation to the complexity it expresses in the hands of a creator. Magpie feathers are shaped into disturbing spatial deluges by Kate MccGwire; white balloons are used over and over again by Charles Pétillon to undermine our perceptions of everyday reality. Over One Artist, One Material’s lifetime, art and design have been steadily converging, with pop-up shops now often appearing to be art installations (and occasionally vice versa). Pressures on budgets and increasing awareness of sustainability issues have led designers to take a new look at materials, opting for recycling, making, and even growing their own. Handcrafted items have meanwhile found a new popularity and relevance. All of these material trends are prefigured in One Artist, One Material.
As If Silent And Absent
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Author : Ehud R. Toledano
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2007-07-12
As If Silent And Absent written by Ehud R. Toledano and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-12 with Social Science categories.
This groundbreaking book reconceptualizes slavery through the voices of enslaved persons themselves, voices that have remained silent in the narratives of conventional history. Focusing in particular on the Islamic Middle East from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, Ehud R. Toledano examines how bonded persons experienced enslavement in Ottoman societies. He draws on court records and a variety of other unexamined primary sources to uncover important new information about the Africans and Circassians who were forcibly removed from their own societies and transplanted to Middle East cultures that were alien to them. Toledano also considers the experiences of these enslaved people within the context of the global history of slavery. The book looks at the bonds of slavery from an original perspective, moving away from the traditional master/slave domination paradigm toward the point of view of the enslaved and their responses to their plight. With keen and original insights, Toledano suggests new ways of thinking about enslavement.
Children S Publishing And Black Britain 1965 2015
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Author : Karen Sands-O'Connor
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-06-23
Children S Publishing And Black Britain 1965 2015 written by Karen Sands-O'Connor and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book examines a critical period in British children’s publishing, from the earliest days of dedicated publishing firms for Black British audiences to the beginnings of the Black Lives Matter movement in the UK. Taking a historical approach that includes education acts, Black protest, community publishing and children’s literature prizes, the study investigates the motivation behind both independent and mainstream publishing firm decisions to produce books for a specifically Black British audience. Beginning with a consideration of early reading schemes that incorporated Black and Asian characters, the book continues with a history of one of the earliest presses to publish for children, Bogle L’Ouverture. Other chapters look at the influence of community-based and independent presses, the era of multiculturalism and anti-racism, the effect of racially-motivated violence on children’s publishing, and the dubious benefit of awards for Black British publishing. The volume will appeal to children’s literature scholars, librarians, teachers, education-policy makers and Black British historians.
Poem Unlimited
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Author : David Kerler
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2019-09-23
Poem Unlimited written by David Kerler and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
Questions of genres as well as their possible definitions, taxonomies, and functions have been discussed since antiquity. Even though categories of genre today are far from being fixed, they have for decades been upheld without question. The goal of this volume is to problematize traditional definitions of poetic genres and to situate them in a broader socio-cultural, historical, and theoretical context. The contributions encompass numerous methodological approaches (including hermeneutics, poststructuralism, reception theory, cultural studies, gender studies), periods (Romanticism, Modernism, Postmodernism), genres (elegy, sonnet, visual poetry, performance poetry, hip hop) as well as languages and national literatures. From this interdisciplinary and multi-methodological perspective, genres, periods, languages, and literatures are put into fruitful dialogue, new perspectives are discovered, and suggestions for further research are provided.
Empire
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Author : Alejandro Colás
language : en
Publisher: Polity
Release Date : 2007-02-05
Empire written by Alejandro Colás and has been published by Polity this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-02-05 with History categories.
The notion of empire has in recent years taken on a renewed importance in world politics. US foreign policy has in particular been associated with this concept by both critics and supporters of American global power. But what exactly is an empire? What distinguishes different forms of empire? Is this category still useful in a post-colonial world? These and other related questions are addressed in this historically informed conceptual introduction to the idea of empire. Alejandro Colás draws on interdisciplinary debates surrounding this disputed notion and offers a survey of different imperial experiences across time and place. Successive chapters consider the imperial organization of political space, the role of markets in sustaining imperial rule and the contradictory expressions of imperial culture. Colás argues that in each of these arenas we can establish differences among empires but also contrast imperial polities to other forms of political rule. In addition he suggests that the experiences and legacies of empire are key to an understanding of the world today, including forms of global governance and experiments in nation-building. Using wide-ranging examples, the book discusses some of the major theories of empire and imperialism in an accessible and engaging way. Above all, the text aims to bring the concept of empire alive to those concerned with contemporary world politics and society. It will be of great interest to those studying and teaching world history, international relations, comparative politics or global sociology.