Author: Andrew Holmes
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 184112642X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
How many times have people caused you misery while you go about your daily routine? How often has a religious nut knocked on your door intent on converting you or a stressed out shopper upended pyramids of Honduran ugli fruit in front of your trolley? You?ve tried isolation tanks, you?ve tried staying tucked up in bed all day, you?ve looked into selling your worldly goods and joining a retreat. At last there?s an effective way to fight back. Pains in Public will help you spot, avoid and get your own back on the 50 worst types of people life throws up at you. This is a manifesto for the perennially grumpy. Down with pushiness, poor personal hygiene and fluorescent tabards. Together we can make the world a less painful place. Pains in Public is guaranteed to become as indispensable to the upstanding citizen as an efficient neighbourhood watch scheme and a pooper scoop. It?s the perfect antidote to nightmarish civilians everywhere!
Pains in Public
Author: Andrew Holmes
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 184112642X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
How many times have people caused you misery while you go about your daily routine? How often has a religious nut knocked on your door intent on converting you or a stressed out shopper upended pyramids of Honduran ugli fruit in front of your trolley? You?ve tried isolation tanks, you?ve tried staying tucked up in bed all day, you?ve looked into selling your worldly goods and joining a retreat. At last there?s an effective way to fight back. Pains in Public will help you spot, avoid and get your own back on the 50 worst types of people life throws up at you. This is a manifesto for the perennially grumpy. Down with pushiness, poor personal hygiene and fluorescent tabards. Together we can make the world a less painful place. Pains in Public is guaranteed to become as indispensable to the upstanding citizen as an efficient neighbourhood watch scheme and a pooper scoop. It?s the perfect antidote to nightmarish civilians everywhere!
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 184112642X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
How many times have people caused you misery while you go about your daily routine? How often has a religious nut knocked on your door intent on converting you or a stressed out shopper upended pyramids of Honduran ugli fruit in front of your trolley? You?ve tried isolation tanks, you?ve tried staying tucked up in bed all day, you?ve looked into selling your worldly goods and joining a retreat. At last there?s an effective way to fight back. Pains in Public will help you spot, avoid and get your own back on the 50 worst types of people life throws up at you. This is a manifesto for the perennially grumpy. Down with pushiness, poor personal hygiene and fluorescent tabards. Together we can make the world a less painful place. Pains in Public is guaranteed to become as indispensable to the upstanding citizen as an efficient neighbourhood watch scheme and a pooper scoop. It?s the perfect antidote to nightmarish civilians everywhere!
30 Old Testament Quickskits for Kids
Author: Steven James
Publisher: Standard Publishing
ISBN: 9780784716298
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
This book provides quick and creative ways for teachers to have kids help retell Old Testament Bible stories. This readers' theater performance style is fun because there aren't any lines to memorize. Enjoy this library of favorite Bible stories and storytelling techniques developed by award-winning author and professional storyteller Steven James. Each book includes creative storytelling techniques especially suited to help teachers tell God’s story and involve children in the Bible story.
Publisher: Standard Publishing
ISBN: 9780784716298
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
This book provides quick and creative ways for teachers to have kids help retell Old Testament Bible stories. This readers' theater performance style is fun because there aren't any lines to memorize. Enjoy this library of favorite Bible stories and storytelling techniques developed by award-winning author and professional storyteller Steven James. Each book includes creative storytelling techniques especially suited to help teachers tell God’s story and involve children in the Bible story.
Paid to Party
Author: Jamie L. Mullaney
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 081355215X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
On any given night in living rooms across America, women gather for a fun girls’ night out to eat, drink, and purchase the latest products—from Amway to Mary Kay cosmetics. Beneath the party atmosphere lies a billion-dollar industry, Direct Home Sales (DHS), which is currently changing how women navigate work and family. Drawing from numerous interviews with consultants and observations at company-sponsored events, Paid to Party takes a closer look at how DHS promises to change the way we think and feel about the struggles of balancing work and family. Offering a new approach to a flexible work model, DHS companies tell women they can, in fact, have it all and not feel guilty. In DHS, work time is not measured by the hands of the clock, but by the emotional fulfillment and fun it brings.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 081355215X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
On any given night in living rooms across America, women gather for a fun girls’ night out to eat, drink, and purchase the latest products—from Amway to Mary Kay cosmetics. Beneath the party atmosphere lies a billion-dollar industry, Direct Home Sales (DHS), which is currently changing how women navigate work and family. Drawing from numerous interviews with consultants and observations at company-sponsored events, Paid to Party takes a closer look at how DHS promises to change the way we think and feel about the struggles of balancing work and family. Offering a new approach to a flexible work model, DHS companies tell women they can, in fact, have it all and not feel guilty. In DHS, work time is not measured by the hands of the clock, but by the emotional fulfillment and fun it brings.
HPI: Warriors of the Supernatural
Author: Paul Dale Roberts & Deanna Jaxine Stinson
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329333616
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Halo Paranormal Investigations takes you on a journey into the unknown. Deanna Jaxine Stinson lays out her metaphysical and spiritual philosophy.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329333616
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Halo Paranormal Investigations takes you on a journey into the unknown. Deanna Jaxine Stinson lays out her metaphysical and spiritual philosophy.
Volume I: Spirit
Author: Zack Nethery
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039128998
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
What happens when a group of teenagers are the only ones who can stop demon lords from opening a portal to Hell and wreaking havoc on Earth? For hundreds of years, a group of demon lords have been held at bay, until now. The year is 2012, and a group of cultists have found a way to unlock a containment spell, unleashing five demon lords who possess elemental powers and setting a group of strangers from a small town in New York on a violent collision course with destiny. An arrogant nineteen-year-old, a bullied tenth grader, a highly intelligent prom queen-to-be, and a nature-loving fifteen-year-old have been chosen to harness elemental powers and save Earth from dark forces. Thrust into the world of the supernatural, the young heroes have trouble controlling their emotions and their powers, leaving a wake of destruction behind them that captures the attention of a pair of detectives. All the while, a secret organization watches from the shadows and others watch from above...
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039128998
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
What happens when a group of teenagers are the only ones who can stop demon lords from opening a portal to Hell and wreaking havoc on Earth? For hundreds of years, a group of demon lords have been held at bay, until now. The year is 2012, and a group of cultists have found a way to unlock a containment spell, unleashing five demon lords who possess elemental powers and setting a group of strangers from a small town in New York on a violent collision course with destiny. An arrogant nineteen-year-old, a bullied tenth grader, a highly intelligent prom queen-to-be, and a nature-loving fifteen-year-old have been chosen to harness elemental powers and save Earth from dark forces. Thrust into the world of the supernatural, the young heroes have trouble controlling their emotions and their powers, leaving a wake of destruction behind them that captures the attention of a pair of detectives. All the while, a secret organization watches from the shadows and others watch from above...
Willful
Author: Richard Robb
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300246439
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
A revelatory alternative to the standard economic models of human behavior that proposes an exciting new way to understand decision-making "Willful is a breakthrough in economics. Richard Robb's tremendously insightful book shows how much of our behavior is not explained by existing theories of human action and explains in sparkling prose why understanding decisions made seemingly without reason presents a fuller picture of our world."--Edmund S. Phelps, Nobel Laureate in Economics Why do we do the things we do? The classical view of economics is that we are rational individuals, making decisions with the intention of maximizing our preferences. Behaviorists, on the other hand, see us as relying on mental shortcuts and conforming to preexisting biases. Richard Robb argues that neither explanation accounts for those things that we do for their own sake, and without understanding these sorts of actions, our picture of decision-making is at best incomplete. Robb explains how these choices made seemingly without reason belong to a realm of behavior he identifies as "for-itself." A provocative combination of philosophy and economics that offers a key to many of our quixotic choices, this groundbreaking volume provides a new way to understand everything from investing to how hard we work to how we manage daily interactions.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300246439
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
A revelatory alternative to the standard economic models of human behavior that proposes an exciting new way to understand decision-making "Willful is a breakthrough in economics. Richard Robb's tremendously insightful book shows how much of our behavior is not explained by existing theories of human action and explains in sparkling prose why understanding decisions made seemingly without reason presents a fuller picture of our world."--Edmund S. Phelps, Nobel Laureate in Economics Why do we do the things we do? The classical view of economics is that we are rational individuals, making decisions with the intention of maximizing our preferences. Behaviorists, on the other hand, see us as relying on mental shortcuts and conforming to preexisting biases. Richard Robb argues that neither explanation accounts for those things that we do for their own sake, and without understanding these sorts of actions, our picture of decision-making is at best incomplete. Robb explains how these choices made seemingly without reason belong to a realm of behavior he identifies as "for-itself." A provocative combination of philosophy and economics that offers a key to many of our quixotic choices, this groundbreaking volume provides a new way to understand everything from investing to how hard we work to how we manage daily interactions.
Trustees at Work
Author: Anna Jane Samis Lund
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774861444
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Mortgages, student loans, credit cards: debt is a ubiquitous component of daily life in Canada. But our attitudes toward debt, and the people who incur it, are complex. Trustees at Work explores the role bankruptcy trustees play in determining who qualifies as a deserving debtor under Canadian personal bankruptcy law. When debt becomes unmanageable, the bankruptcy and insolvency system provides relief – though not to everyone. The architects of the system have restricted access to this benefit by developing methods to distinguish deserving from undeserving debtors. The idea of a deserving debtor is woven throughout bankruptcy law, with debt relief being reserved for those debtors deemed deserving. The legislation and case law invite trustees to assess debtors based on their pre-bankruptcy choices, but in practice, trustees evaluate debtors based on how cooperative the debtors are during bankruptcy proceedings. Using insights from the sociology of emotion, Anna Jane Samis Lund reveals how carrying out emotional labour shapes an insolvency professional’s assessments of a debtor’s deservingness. Trustees at Work also includes interviews and statistical data to explain how the financial and emotional pressures of trustees’ work shape their decision-making process. Ultimately, it shows how insolvency trustees’ conceptions of a deserving debtor are shaped by the financial, legal, and emotional contexts in which they work.
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774861444
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Mortgages, student loans, credit cards: debt is a ubiquitous component of daily life in Canada. But our attitudes toward debt, and the people who incur it, are complex. Trustees at Work explores the role bankruptcy trustees play in determining who qualifies as a deserving debtor under Canadian personal bankruptcy law. When debt becomes unmanageable, the bankruptcy and insolvency system provides relief – though not to everyone. The architects of the system have restricted access to this benefit by developing methods to distinguish deserving from undeserving debtors. The idea of a deserving debtor is woven throughout bankruptcy law, with debt relief being reserved for those debtors deemed deserving. The legislation and case law invite trustees to assess debtors based on their pre-bankruptcy choices, but in practice, trustees evaluate debtors based on how cooperative the debtors are during bankruptcy proceedings. Using insights from the sociology of emotion, Anna Jane Samis Lund reveals how carrying out emotional labour shapes an insolvency professional’s assessments of a debtor’s deservingness. Trustees at Work also includes interviews and statistical data to explain how the financial and emotional pressures of trustees’ work shape their decision-making process. Ultimately, it shows how insolvency trustees’ conceptions of a deserving debtor are shaped by the financial, legal, and emotional contexts in which they work.
Sideffect
Author: Rodney Bridge
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1669887359
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
February 2013. Perth, Western Australia. Following his Year 12 school ball, Preston Bridge and his friends consumed synthetic LSD ordered online by a third party through the darknet website Silk Road. Suffering drug-induced psychosis, Preston jumped from a 2nd storey hotel room balcony. Preston lay in hospital in an induced coma and remained on life support for three days before his father Rod and Preston’s mother Vicky made that hard decision to turn off his life support system. What followed was a father’s mission to uncover how his son got his hands on the dangerous research chemical drug. Travelling to China he finds himself at the centre of a dangerous undercover sting operation to expose China’s deadly illegal drug manufacturing and distribution network. On returning to Australia, Rod continued his mission which resulted in the arrest of 21,000 people in China and the closing down of factories, websites and over 5 million social media outlets throughout the country.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1669887359
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
February 2013. Perth, Western Australia. Following his Year 12 school ball, Preston Bridge and his friends consumed synthetic LSD ordered online by a third party through the darknet website Silk Road. Suffering drug-induced psychosis, Preston jumped from a 2nd storey hotel room balcony. Preston lay in hospital in an induced coma and remained on life support for three days before his father Rod and Preston’s mother Vicky made that hard decision to turn off his life support system. What followed was a father’s mission to uncover how his son got his hands on the dangerous research chemical drug. Travelling to China he finds himself at the centre of a dangerous undercover sting operation to expose China’s deadly illegal drug manufacturing and distribution network. On returning to Australia, Rod continued his mission which resulted in the arrest of 21,000 people in China and the closing down of factories, websites and over 5 million social media outlets throughout the country.
Love & Literacy
Author: Paul Bambrick-Santoyo
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119751659
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
When our students enter middle and high school, the saying goes that they stop learning to read and start reading to learn. Then why is literacy still a struggle for so many of our students? The reality is that elementary school isn’t designed to prepare students for Othello and Song of Solomon: so what do we do? Love and Literacy steps into the classrooms of extraordinary teachers who have guided students to the highest levels of literacy. There is magic in their teaching, but that magic is replicable. It starts with a simple premise: kids fall in love with texts when they understand them, and that understanding comes from the right knowledge and/or the right strategy at the right time. Love and Literacy dissects the moves of successful teachers and schools and leaves you with the tools to make these your own: Research-based best practices in facilitating discourse, building curriculum, guiding student comprehension and analysis, creating a class culture where literacy thrives, and more Video clips of middle and high school teachers implementing these practices An online, print-ready Reading and Writing Handbook that places every tool at your fingertips to implement effectively Discussion questions for your own professional learning or book study group Great reading is more than just liking books: it’s having the knowledge, skill, and desire to experience any text in all its fullness. Love and Literacy guides you to create environments where students can build the will and wherewithal to truly fall in love with literacy.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119751659
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
When our students enter middle and high school, the saying goes that they stop learning to read and start reading to learn. Then why is literacy still a struggle for so many of our students? The reality is that elementary school isn’t designed to prepare students for Othello and Song of Solomon: so what do we do? Love and Literacy steps into the classrooms of extraordinary teachers who have guided students to the highest levels of literacy. There is magic in their teaching, but that magic is replicable. It starts with a simple premise: kids fall in love with texts when they understand them, and that understanding comes from the right knowledge and/or the right strategy at the right time. Love and Literacy dissects the moves of successful teachers and schools and leaves you with the tools to make these your own: Research-based best practices in facilitating discourse, building curriculum, guiding student comprehension and analysis, creating a class culture where literacy thrives, and more Video clips of middle and high school teachers implementing these practices An online, print-ready Reading and Writing Handbook that places every tool at your fingertips to implement effectively Discussion questions for your own professional learning or book study group Great reading is more than just liking books: it’s having the knowledge, skill, and desire to experience any text in all its fullness. Love and Literacy guides you to create environments where students can build the will and wherewithal to truly fall in love with literacy.
THO’ S
Author: R. AUGUSTA HAMMOND
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483617254
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Hello .... My name is R. Augusta Hammond. I would like to try to give you some insight as to the contents of this book. I have been a lover of books ever since I was a little boy in grade school. I have my fourth grade teacher to thank for that. Mrs. Jones, her real name, was a wonderful teacher and very patient. When I became a teenager, I fell in love with science fiction and history and math. Let me say, and of course you know this, that Edgar Rice Burroughs, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein and many of the other writers of my age gave me so many enjoyious hours of reading and adventure. I thought the time had come to give something back. Only a few people in my book are real. All the people that we rescued are real. All the rest are fictitious and any similarity to anyone living or dead is not intended. I made up the names.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483617254
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Hello .... My name is R. Augusta Hammond. I would like to try to give you some insight as to the contents of this book. I have been a lover of books ever since I was a little boy in grade school. I have my fourth grade teacher to thank for that. Mrs. Jones, her real name, was a wonderful teacher and very patient. When I became a teenager, I fell in love with science fiction and history and math. Let me say, and of course you know this, that Edgar Rice Burroughs, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein and many of the other writers of my age gave me so many enjoyious hours of reading and adventure. I thought the time had come to give something back. Only a few people in my book are real. All the people that we rescued are real. All the rest are fictitious and any similarity to anyone living or dead is not intended. I made up the names.