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Step Off the Edge

Author : Ashlea Spivey
Publisher : Ashlea Renee Spivey
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781456471644

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Lorraine is a quiet, meticulous thinker that has gone her whole life blaming her father for her childhood torment and her failed relationships. She has hid behind blame, regret and doubt, building walls around herself in order to remain invisible - in the hopes of alluding hurt and heartbreak again. Those same walls come crashing down as she finds herself facing a judge who sentences her to mandatory therapy. Lorraine's therapist helps her break through to the truth of her paralyzing fear, and forces her to stop pointing her fingers in blame, take responsibility for her a waiting destiny and step off the edge into life. Winston is a high level executive making big moves and seemingly has it all together. He, however, is convinced no one would ever understand the pain he has silently experienced and the tears he has cried for the love he lost. He is too ashamed to reach out for help and too afraid that everyone deserves forgiveness, but him. A chance encounter on an elevator ignites his heart. This leads him to an old friend that will help him see that forgiveness may be the very thing that will give Winston the second chance he has been praying for.Living in fear is a slow long drawn straight line to nothing. We struggle to set goals and to create a realistic dream; too afraid to live. We choose fantasies filled with knights in shining armor coming to rescue us from our sin and personal state of woe. We decide not to change on our own, knowing what's necessary to complete our purpose. When does it end? When do we stop living in fear of the unknown or fear of success or fear of inadequacy? When do we take the leap of faith, when do we take the opportunity to step off the edge?

On The Edge: Stepping Back From The Brink of Suicide

Author : James Gardner
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-27
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781452051024

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James was only five years old and travelling home to Devon after holiday with his family in Scotland in 1986, when tragedy struck. The car was involved in a serious accident just outside Bristol, leaving him fighting for survival on life support. When he emerged from his coma, doctors discovered that he was seriously brain damaged, leaving the left side paralysed. Within the blink of an eye James had been transformed from a gregarious, fun-loving little boy into a rag doll. But with a lot of loving support, he began the long and difficult road to recovery. His attitude was inspirational, and for years he threw himself into rehabilitation. As James grew up he began to feel misunderstood and not able to reach the level of normality he so yearned for. He felt that there was no longer any point to his life. When James asked his doctor for help, the reality of his situation suddenly struck. Suicide would be the ultimate failure. This is the story of James' life and how he fought tooth and nail to stay alive. It is both his autobiography and a guide to personal development. Since making the conscious decision not to give up hope, James has gone on to travel the world and teach English abroad. James is open and honest about the things in which he has found great solace during his darkest hours, and he credits the teachings of Kabbalah, an increasingly popular form of Jewish mysticism, for helping him refocus his life. The singer Madonna, a long term exponent of the spiritual teaching, has been an inspirational figure for James. James is now a picture of good health; despite continued weakness in his left side and a limp, he walks confidently and with a purpose.

E-Mails from the Edge

Author : Lynne Everatt
Publisher : Insomniac Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781897415191

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Told through a series of increasingly frantic e-mails to her mentor, E-Mails from the Edge traces the circuitous career of Constance Beaman, MBA, a middling middle manager at a mega-multinational corporation. Constance works in a world she never encountered in business school: the real world. She is bounced among a kaleidoscopic assortment of bosses, squeezed through the merger ringer, shaken by excruciating exercises in team building, and forced to exude passion against her will.

Thin Film Nanophotonics

Author : Guru Subramanyam,Partha P. Banerjee,Karl S. Gudmundsson,Akhlesh Lakhtakia
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780128220863

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Thin Film Nanophotonics by Guru Subramanyam,Partha P. Banerjee,Karl S. Gudmundsson,Akhlesh Lakhtakia Pdf

Thin Film Nanophotonics: Conclusions from the Third International Workshop on Thin Films for Electronics, Electro-Optics, Energy and Sensors (TFE3S) provides up-to-date coverage of the properties and photonic applications of nanostructured thin films, including discussions on optical waveguides, photonic lattices for wideband reflectors, polarizers, bandpass filters, meta surfaces, plasmonic resonance sensors, smart windows, optical switches, photovoltaics, and many more. This is an important reference source for materials scientists, engineers and physicists working in the areas of nanomaterials and photonics. New thin film applications such as thin-film topological insulators and 2D materials are gaining attention and growing exponentially, hence this book is an ideal reference on how engineered thin films for various nano-photonics applications present exponential growth in a wide array of areas. Focuses on the interaction of photons with nanostructured thin films, nanocrystals, nanowires, semiconductor nanodots and photonic crystals Offers a comprehensive overview of the latest advances in thin-film nanophotonics Discusses how the properties of thin films make them particularly useful for photonic applications

My Tenth Summer

Author : Jack David Wanstreet
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480908772

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My Tenth Summer by Jack Wanstreet After his father's death, young Jack Streets takes on a paper route to earn a little extra money to help out his family. But when the neighbor of his last customer decides he wants a free paper and lets loose this leg-biting dog, young Jack decides to eliminate the dog by any means possible. And when he brings his father's pistol along, in hopes of only scaring the dog and its owner, things get terribly out of control, and little Jackie Streets ends up on the run from not only the local police, but also from the people trying to molest him, hurt him, use him, and kill him. From his home in Santa Ana, California, to the high desert of San Bernardino County, Jack is faced with all walks of life. From the homeless to the homicidal, car thieves, and drug runners, he learns the hard way who is a friend and who isn't, and he is pushed into making decisions he normally wouldn't make, like when to kill. About the Author Jack David Wanstreet is an extremely motivated adventurer. He likes places no one has ever heard of before. He is an avid reader of adventure stories and he loves action films. Jack is a father to two boys, who have left the nest, and he misses them every day. Jack lives not only for the moment, but also for the future. He lives life for the excitement it holds, and he writes his stories to share his adventures with others.

Standing at the Edge

Author : Joan Halifax
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781250101365

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"Joan Halifax is a clearheaded and fearless traveler and in this book...she offers us a map of how to travel courageously and fruitfully, for our own benefit and the benefit of all beings." —From the foreword by Rebecca Solnit Standing at the Edge is an evocative examination of how we can respond to suffering, live our fullest lives, and remain open to the full spectrum of our human experience. Joan Halifax has enriched thousands of lives around the world through her work as a humanitarian, a social activist, an anthropologist, and as a Buddhist teacher. Over many decades, she has also collaborated with neuroscientists, clinicians, and psychologists to understand how contemplative practice can be a vehicle for social transformation. Through her unusual background, she developed an understanding of how our greatest challenges can become the most valuable source of our wisdom—and how we can transform our experience of suffering into the power of compassion for the benefit of others. Halifax has identified five psychological territories she calls Edge States—altruism, empathy, integrity, respect, and engagement—that epitomize strength of character. Yet each of these states can also be the cause of personal and social suffering. In this way, these five psychological experiences form edges, and it is only when we stand at these edges that we become open to the full range of our human experience and discover who we really are. Recounting the experiences of caregivers, activists, humanitarians, politicians, parents, and teachers, incorporating the wisdom of Zen traditions and mindfulness practices, and rooted in Halifax's groundbreaking research on compassion, Standing at the Edge is destined to become a contemporary classic. A powerful guide on how to find the freedom we seek for others and ourselves, it is a book that will serve us all.

Memories of Eternity

Author : Jack Bybee
Publisher : Jack Bybee Art Studio,l.l.c.
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781088007020

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· “What place is this? Where am I now?” “This is what, in your world, you call Heaven, it is another Realm” The Voice is calm, loving, authoritative. · At age 26, the author, Jack Bybee, was completely unprepared for death - or rather - a transition to death consciousness. It had never occurred to him that at such an early age he might die. Having been raised in a Protestant Church, there was nothing that prepared the author for what he found in what is now termed in "death consciousness". · This text has been written over years with the aim of helping the Baby Boomer or the spirit which will soon transmute to the Other Side of Earth-plane consciousness. Though every life is different and every transition to the Other Side is probably different, the text highlights the issues that were encountered so unexpectedly on transition to death consciousness. · From the time that the author's body in the hospital ward is left behind and in spirit, he transitions through the hospital, eventually looking down on the City of Cape Town, nearby in the middle of what seemed like a beautiful night, came the transition through The Tunnel, a vortex of energy, to be met by loved ones on the Other Side. · The text highlights what Bybee regards as the most important questions any spirit will need to answer. These are detailed and expanded upon in Memories of Eternity. They are: “What have you done with the life just passed?” “Whom have you loved and been loved by?” “What have you learned?” The author is convinced that these Three Questions need to be understood and answered. They were posed to him as he transitioned through The Tunnel to the Other Side by the Voice of God. · The text details the confusion of being ‘dead’, but not being dead. “What have you done with the life just passed?” As Bybee expresses, he wasn't dead. How could that be? The life just passed? How could the life be passed? He could hear, feel, see, think, move. How could he be... dead? · All this will be explored and is revealed to help the spirit understand the transition from the Earth plane to the Other Side. · Then comes what some could call judgment. A judgment of the Self? In NDE research it is called the Life Review which is dealt with extensively in Memories of Eternity. Detailing how the life just passed is presented almost as a video scenario, and the video seems to pause where the spirit needs to learn lessons and to answer the question of “Was that a loving thing to do?” · While there are numerous other titles dealing with the near-death experience, this is one of few that is written primarily to help anyone understand what happens when the spirit transitions to the Other Side.

Leading on the Edge

Author : Rachael Robertson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780730305521

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Leading on the Edge by Rachael Robertson Pdf

Lessons on authentic leadership from the 58th annual Antarctic expedition In Leading on the Edge, successful business speaker and consultant Rachael Robertson shares the lessons she learned as leader of a year-long expedition to the wilds of Antarctica. Leading eighteen strangers around the clock for a full year—through months of darkness and with no escape from the frigid cold, howling winds, and each other—Robertson learned powerful lessons about what real, authentic leadership is. Here, she offers a deeply honest and humorous account of what it takes to survive and lead in the harshest environment on Earth. What emerges from her graphic account is a series of powerful and practical lessons for business leaders and managers everywhere. Features practical leadership lessons that are particularly helpful for any leader who must get the best out of the team they've got Features solutions to many challenges common to all workplaces Includes real excerpts from Robertson's personal journals through twelve months of leading in the most challenging environment in the world Written by a popular speaker and business leader who has appeared at more than 350 national and international conferences and events for a wide range of industries Leading on the Edge explains what it's like to take charge when you've no place to hide and how truly harsh environments can serve as a leadership laboratory that results in truly effective, authentic leadership.

Stepping Back from the Ledge

Author : Laura Trujillo
Publisher : Random House
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780593157619

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In this “seismically moving memoir” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice), one woman asks a seemingly impossible question in the aftermath of her mother’s suicide: How do you mourn a loved one as you repair the injuries they inflicted? “Laura Trujillo resurfaces from the dark ‘sub-basement’ of despair with assurances for us all: There is hope. There is healing. Always, there is love. This book will save lives.”—Connie Schultz, author of The Daughters of Erietown ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker Laura Trujillo had been close to her mother for most of her adult life, raising her four children within a few miles of their beloved grandmother’s Phoenix home. But just three months after moving her young family to Cincinnati for a new job, Laura receives shocking news: Her mother had taken her own life—by jumping off a ledge into the Grand Canyon, a place Laura knew her mother had always loved. Laura and her mother had shared a profound and special bond, yet each had also kept from the other the deepest truths about their lives. As an adult, Laura finally broke her silence about the sexual abuse she had suffered as a teenager at the hands of her stepfather—a secret Laura had buried to protect her mother. After her mother’s death, Laura embarks on an emotional odyssey, searching for clues that could explain the depression, intergenerational trauma, and shared heartbreaks in her family. When she returns to the Grand Canyon, it becomes an oasis that nurtures Laura’s search for redemption and peace. As Laura wrestles with her feelings, she forges a new path forward. Moving and intimate, powerfully told, Stepping Back from the Ledge is a remarkable exploration of the bond between a mother and daughter, and of the hope that can come from facing the truth.

Changing on the Job

Author : Jennifer Garvey Berger
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780804782869

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Listen to people in every field and you'll hear a call for more sophisticated leadership—for leaders who can solve more complex problems than the human race has ever faced. But these leaders won't simply come to the fore; we have to develop them, and we must cultivate them as quickly as is humanly possible. Changing on the Job is a means to this end. As opposed to showing readers how to play the role of a leader in a "paint by numbers" fashion, Changing on the Job builds on theories of adult growth and development to help readers become more thoughtful individuals, capable of leading in any scenario. Moving from the theoretical to the practical, and employing real-world examples, author Jennifer Garvey Berger offers a set of building blocks to help cultivate an agile workforce while improving performance. Coaches, HR professionals, thoughtful leaders, and anyone who wants to flourish on the job will find this book a vital resource for developing their own capacities and those of the talent that they support.

The Edge of Madness

Author : Michael Dobbs
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847375605

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Cyber-warfare: the kind that brings nations to their knees, switching off energy lifelines, crippling the financial markets, starving leaders of authority. An old Russian nuclear reactor goes into Chernobyl-style meltdown while, on the other side of the world, the US Eastern Seaboard is plunged into darkness. No one knows - yet - who is responsible for the chaos. Hidden from view of the rest of the world, an extraordinary meeting of the US President, the Russian President and the British Prime Minister is about to take place. They have the weekend to save the world - and they must do it alone. Something serious is going on in Beijing. Military manoeuvres. Troops on the streets. It's as though the Chinese are preparing for the final thrust against their old enemies, bringing them to their knees in a war that will see not a single shot being fired.

High Angle Rope Rescue Techniques Levels I and II

Author : Tom Vines,Steve Hudson
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781284026955

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High Angle Rope Rescue Techniques Levels I and II by Tom Vines,Steve Hudson Pdf

Your Definitive High Angle Rope Rescue Guide! The fourth edition of High-Angle Rope Rescue Techniques: Levels I & II provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of high-angle rescue, including planning, PPE and equipment, medical considerations, evacuations, and special rescue operations. Based on the 2013 edition of NFPA 1006, Standard for Technical Rescuer Professional Qualifications, High-Angle Rope Rescue Techniques: Levels I & II provides a broad overview of all rescue techniques to meets the needs of fire service, search and rescue, and many other rope rescue professionals. The fourth edition has been updated to include: Coverage of new protective equipment, terminology, rescue products, and techniques. All new Skill Drills that provide step-by-step instruction on how to execute important skills and procedures. Separation of High-Angle Rope Rescue I and II Level content throughout the textbook and instructor resources.

The Edge of the Earth

Author : Christina Schwarz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451683721

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From the author of Drowning Ruth, a haunting, atmospheric novel set at the closing of the frontier about a young wife who moves to a far-flung and forbidding lighthouse where she uncovers a life-changing secret. In 1898, a woman forsakes the comfort of home and family for a love that takes her to a remote lighthouse on the wild coast of California. What she finds at the edge of the earth, hidden between the sea and the fog, will change her life irrevocably. Trudy, who can argue Kant over dinner and play a respectable portion of Mozart’s Serenade in G major, has been raised to marry her childhood friend and assume a life of bourgeois comfort in Milwaukee. She knows she should be pleased, but she’s restless instead, yearning for something she lacks even the vocabulary to articulate. When she falls in love with enigmatic and ambitious Oskar, she believes she’s found her escape from the banality of her preordained life. But escape turns out to be more fraught than Trudy had imagined. Alienated from family and friends, the couple moves across the country to take a job at a lighthouse at Point Lucia, California—an unnervingly isolated outcropping, trapped between the ocean and hundreds of miles of inaccessible wilderness. There they meet the light station’s only inhabitants—the formidable and guarded Crawleys. In this unfamiliar place, Trudy will find that nothing is as she might have predicted, especially after she discovers what hides among the rocks. Gorgeously detailed, swiftly paced, and anchored in the dramatic geography of the remote and eternally mesmerizing Big Sur, The Edge of the Earth is a magical story of secrets and self-transformation, ruses and rebirths. Christina Schwarz, celebrated for her rich evocation of place and vivid, unpredictable characters, has spun another haunting and unforgettable tale.

Jonah & the Edge

Author : Emily Blake Vail
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462899227

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In the days before the cell phone, Facebook, i-pads, and mass electronic communication, there was Alexi. She lived in a suburb called Lockridge, in the USA, and she had a credo: "I don't want to do anything really." But change crept into Alexi's Autumn of 1982, twisting her existence. New people appeared at school. She was forced into a job (Halloween Carnival chairman) she didn't feel comfortable with, she found dealing with her divorced parents trying, and feelings emerged that were totally new and unexpected ... could it be LOVE?

Neurologic Interventions for Physical Therapy

Author : Suzanne C. Martin,Mary Kessler
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780721604275

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Neurologic Interventions for Physical Therapy by Suzanne C. Martin,Mary Kessler Pdf

Master the role of the physical therapist or physical therapist assistant in neurologic rehabilitation! Neurologic Interventions for Physical Therapy, 3rd Edition helps you develop skills in the treatment interventions needed to improve the function of patients with neurologic deficits. It provides a solid foundation in neuroanatomy, motor control, and motor development, and offers clear, how-to guidelines to rehabilitation procedures. Case studies help you follow best practices for the treatment of children and adults with neuromuscular impairments caused by events such as spinal cord injuries, cerebral palsy, and traumatic brain injuries. Written by physical therapy experts Suzanne 'Tink' Martin and Mary Kessler, this market-leading text will help you prepare for the neurological portion of the PTA certification exam and begin a successful career in physical therapy practice. Comprehensive coverage of neurologic rehabilitation explores concepts in neuroanatomy, motor control and motor learning, motor development, and evidence-based treatment of adults and children with neuromuscular impairments. Over 700 photos and drawings clarify concepts, show anatomy, physiology, evaluation, and pathology, and depict the most current rehabilitation procedures and technology. Case studies demonstrate the patient examination and treatment process, and show how to achieve consistency in documentation. Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation chapter describes how PNF can be used to improve a patient's performance of functional tasks by increasing strength, flexibility, and range of motion - key to the treatment of individuals post stroke. Review questions are included at the end of each chapter, with answers at the back of the book. Illustrated step-by-step intervention boxes, tables, and charts highlight important information, and make it easy to find instructions quickly. Use of language of the APTA Guide to Physical Therapist Practice ensures that you understand and comply with best practices recommended by the APTA. NEW photographs of interventions and equipment reflect the most current rehabilitation procedures and technology. UPDATED study resources on the Evolve companion website include an intervention collection, study tips, and additional review questions and interactive case studies.