Stretched Thin

Author : Jessica N. Turner
Publisher : Revell
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781441246189

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Stretched Too Thin by Jessica N. Turner Pdf

Working mothers constantly battle the pull to do all the things well. From managing work and home responsibilities to being impacted by a lack of self-care and time for deep friendships, the struggle is real. At the end of each day, many working moms are exhausted and stretched too thin. But this does not have to be the norm. In her latest practical and inspiring book, Jessica Turner shows the working mom how to - work and parent guilt-free - establish clear work boundaries - set achievable goals - discover more flexibility - develop home management solutions - prioritize self-care - invest in her marriage - cultivate deeper friendships - feel like a good mom, even while working Full of compassion and encouragement, Stretched Too Thin will empower women with useful insights and tools to thrive as working moms.

Author : Sandra L. Morgen,Joan Acker,Jill Weigt
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801457845

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Stretched Thin by Sandra L. Morgen,Joan Acker,Jill Weigt Pdf

When the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act became law in 1996, the architects of welfare reform celebrated what they called the new "consensus" on welfare: that cash assistance should be temporary and contingent on recipients' seeking and finding employment. However, assessments about the assumptions and consequences of this radical change to the nation's social safety net were actually far more varied and disputed than the label "consensus" suggests. By examining the varied realities and accountings of welfare restructuring, Stretched Thin looks back at a critical moment of policy change and suggests how welfare policy in the United States can be changed to better address the needs of poor families and the nation. Using ethnographic observations, in-depth interviews with poor families and welfare workers, survey data tracking more than 750 families over two years, and documentary evidence, Sandra Morgen, Joan Acker, and Jill Weigt question the validity of claims that welfare reform has been a success. They show how poor families, welfare workers, and welfare administrators experienced and assessed welfare reform differently based on gender, race, class, and their varying positions of power and control within the welfare state. The authors document the ways that, despite the dramatic drop in welfare rolls, low-wage jobs and inadequate social supports left many families struggling in poverty. Revealing how the neoliberal principles of a drastically downsized welfare state and individual responsibility for economic survival were implemented through policies and practices of welfare provision and nonprovision, the authors conclude with new recommendations for reforming welfare policy to reduce poverty, promote economic security, and foster shared prosperity.

Author : Brady Nichols
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : Brothers
ISBN : 0692789197

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Stretched Thin by Brady Nichols Pdf

"This book was an art project started a few years back while Brett was incarcerated. We decided to share our story and maybe touch some folks in a positive manner along the way" -- www.stretchedthin18.com

Author : Nadia Shammas
Publisher : Graphix
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1338722581

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Ms. Marvel: Stretched Thin (Original Graphic Novel) by Nadia Shammas Pdf

Are you ready for some epic super hero action? Read along to the journeys of Miles Morales, Spider-Ham, Ms. Marvel and Shuri as they save the day and learn more about what it means to be a true hero.

Author : April J. Lisbon, Ed.D.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-13
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Stretched Thin by April J. Lisbon, Ed.D. Pdf

This book chronicles the author’s journey as a social justice advocate for children who have been identified for special education services. In her role as a school psychologist, the author has helped many families and educational stakeholders over the years better understand the relationship between a student’s disability and its implication(s) in the classroom, at home, as well as within their local community. However, it was not until the author became the parent of two children with disabilities that she finally understood the raw emotions and concerns faced by many families of children with special needs and developmental challenges. The author provides a snapshot into her lived experiences as she comes to terms with parenting children with special needs while balancing her career as a school psychologist. The author provides the reader with suggestions on finding ways to balance parenting and/or working with children with special needs.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780791480663

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Democratic Education Stretched Thin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sharon Macdonald,Pat Holden,Shirley Ardener
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0299117642

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Images of Women in Peace and War by Sharon Macdonald,Pat Holden,Shirley Ardener Pdf

As warriors, freedom fighters and victims, as mothers, wives and prostitutes, and as creators and members of peace movements, women are inevitably caught up in the net of war. Yet women's participation in warfare and peace campaigns has often been underestimated or ignored. Images of Women in Peace and War explores women's relationships to war, peace, and revolution, from the Amazons, Inka and Boadicea, to women soldiers in South Africa, Mau Mau freedom fighters and the protestors at Greenham Common. The contributors consider not only the reality of women's participation but also look at how their actions have been perceived and represented across cultures and through history. They examine how sexual imagery is constructed, how it is used to delineate women's relation to warfare and how these images have sometimes been subverted in order to challenge the status quo. The book raises important questions about whether women have a special prerogative to promote peace and considers whether the experience of motherhood leads to a distinctive women's position on war. The authors find that their analyses lead them to deal with arguments on the basic nature of the sexes and to reevaluate our concepts of "peace," "war," and "gender."

Author : Tracie Miles
Publisher : ACU Press/Leafwood Publishers
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Anxiety
ISBN : 1684260027

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Stress-less Living by Tracie Miles Pdf

We all have a desperate longing for a stress cure. In this breakthrough book, Tracie Miles helps you unload the pressure cooker of life and learn to rely on the peace that Christ promises to all who come to him. Stress-Less Living offers life-changing, heart-renewing, long-lasting remedies that will bring peace, even when things feel out of control. Many today receive temporary stress relief from things like meditation, relaxation strategies, breathing exercises, and support groups. Tracie, however, unpacks the truth found in Scripture about how to overcome fear, anxiety, and uncertainty, and shows you how you can not only survive stress but thrive in spite of it through faith in the promises of God.

Author : Scott Sonenshein
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780062457233

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Stretch by Scott Sonenshein Pdf

Wall Street Journal Bestseller A groundbreaking approach to succeeding in business and life, using the science of resourcefulness. We often think the key to success and satisfaction is to get more: more money, time, and possessions; bigger budgets, job titles, and teams; and additional resources for our professional and personal goals. It turns out we’re wrong. Using captivating stories to illustrate research in psychology and management, Rice University professor Scott Sonenshein examines why some people and organizations succeed with so little, while others fail with so much. People and organizations approach resources in two different ways: “chasing” and “stretching.” When chasing, we exhaust ourselves in the pursuit of more. When stretching, we embrace the resources we already have. This frees us to find creative and productive ways to solve problems, innovate, and engage our work and lives more fully. Stretch shows why everyone—from executives to entrepreneurs, professionals to parents, athletes to artists—performs better with constraints; why seeking too many resources undermines our work and well-being; and why even those with a lot benefit from making the most out of a little. Drawing from examples in business, education, sports, medicine, and history, Scott Sonenshein advocates a powerful framework of resourcefulness that allows anybody to work and live better.

Author : Jacob Alex Klerman
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Military planning
ISBN : 9780833042125

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The RAND SLAM Program by Jacob Alex Klerman Pdf

Assessing alternative mixes of active and reserve forces is a crucial defense issue. Force structure decisions are made in an inherently uncertain environment: Force requirements can vary unpredictably, sometimes surging dramatically, depending on the types of conflicts that arise. The RAND SLAM program is a software application designed to aid military analysts in exploring the inherent trade-offs between cost, stress, and risk in force structure decisions. Its unique feature is that it models force requirements stochastically, allowing for analysis of requirements that change unpredictably over time. This report serves as a user's guide, explaining the program's features and interface and guiding the user through example analyses. Several of these example analyses examine some of the same force structure decisions as those analyzed with spreadsheet techniques by Lynn E. Davis et al. in Stretched Thin: Army Forces for Sustained Operations, thus validating the RAND SLAM results against this previous work. The authors also discuss the underlying model for the program, including its strengths and limitations and how it might be expanded and improved.

Author : Jody Casella
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781442468146

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Thin Space by Jody Casella Pdf

There’s a fine line between the living and the dead, and Marshall is determined to cross it in this gut-wrenching debut novel. Ever since the car accident that killed his identical twin brother, Marshall Windsor has been consumed with guilt and crippled by the secrets of that fateful night. He has only one chance to make amends and set things right. He must find a thin space—a mythical point where the barrier between this world and the next is thin enough for a person to step through to the other side. But when a new girl moves into the neighborhood, into the exact same house Marsh is sure holds a thin space, she may be the key—or the unraveling of all his secrets. As they get closer to finding a thin space—and closer to each other—March must decide once and for all how far he’s willing to go to right the wrongs of the living…and the dead.

Author : Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781324001553

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Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present by Ruth Ben-Ghiat Pdf

What modern authoritarian leaders have in common (and how they can be stopped). Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the "strongman" playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin—enabling her to predict with uncanny accuracy the recent experience in America and Europe. In Strongmen, she lays bare the blueprint these leaders have followed over the past 100 years, and empowers us to recognize, resist, and prevent their disastrous rule in the future. For ours is the age of authoritarian rulers: self-proclaimed saviors of the nation who evade accountability while robbing their people of truth, treasure, and the protections of democracy. They promise law and order, then legitimize lawbreaking by financial, sexual, and other predators. They use masculinity as a symbol of strength and a political weapon. Taking what you want, and getting away with it, becomes proof of male authority. They use propaganda, corruption, and violence to stay in power. Vladimir Putin and Mobutu Sese Seko’s kleptocracies, Augusto Pinochet’s torture sites, Benito Mussolini and Muammar Gaddafi’s systems of sexual exploitation, and Silvio Berlusconi and Donald Trump’s relentless misinformation: all show how authoritarian rule, far from ensuring stability, is marked by destructive chaos. No other type of leader is so transparent about prioritizing self-interest over the public good. As one country after another has discovered, the strongman is at his worst when true guidance is most needed by his country. Recounting the acts of solidarity and dignity that have undone strongmen over the past 100 years, Ben-Ghiat makes vividly clear that only by seeing the strongman for what he is—and by valuing one another as he is unable to do—can we stop him, now and in the future.

Author : Ross Douthat,Reihan Salam
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780385526692

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Grand New Party by Ross Douthat,Reihan Salam Pdf

In a provocative challenge to Republican conventional wisdom, two of the Right's rising young thinkers call upon the GOP to focus on the interests and needs of working-class voters.Grand New Party lays bare the failures of the conservative revolution and presents a detailed blueprint for building the next Republican majority. Blending history, analysis, and fresh, often controversial recommendations, Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam argue that it is time to move beyond the Reagan legacy and the current Republican power structure. With specific proposals covering such hot-button topics as immigration, health care, and taxes, Grand New Party shakes up the Right, challenges the Left, and confronts the changing political landscape.

Author : R. Ramesh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781461561859

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Thin Film Ferroelectric Materials and Devices by R. Ramesh Pdf

The past five years have witnessed some dramatic developments in the general area of ferroelectric thin films materials and devices. Ferroelectrics are not new materials by any stretch ofimagination. Indeed, they have been known since the early partofthis century and popular ferroelectric materials such as Barium Titanate have been in use since the second world war. In the late sixties and seventies, a considerable amountofresearch and development effort was made to create a solid state nonvolatile memory using ferroelectrics in a vary simple matrix-addressed scheme. These attempts failed primarily due to problems associated with either the materials ordue to device architectures. The early eighties saw the advent of new materials processing approaches, such as sol-gel processing, that enabled researchers to fabricate sub-micron thin films of ferroelectric materials on a silicon substrate. These pioneering developments signaled the onsetofa revival in the areaofferroelectric thin films, especially ferroelectric nonvolatile memories. Research and development effort in ferroelectric materials and devices has now hit a feverish pitch, Many university laboratories, national laboratories and advanced R&D laboratories oflarge IC manufacturers are deeply involved in the pursuit of ferroelectric device technologies. Many companies worldwide are investing considerable manpower and resources into ferroelectric technologies. Some have already announced products ranging from embedded memories in micro controllers, low density stand-alone memories, microwave circuit elements, andrf identification tags. There is now considerable optimism that ferroelectric devices andproducts will occupy a significant market-share in the new millennium.

Author : Greg McKeown
Publisher : Crown Currency
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780804137393

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Essentialism by Greg McKeown Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than one million copies sold! Essentialism isn’t about getting more done in less time. It’s about getting only the right things done. “A timely, essential read for anyone who feels overcommitted, overloaded, or overworked.”—Adam Grant Have you ever: • found yourself stretched too thin? • simultaneously felt overworked and underutilized? • felt busy but not productive? • felt like your time is constantly being hijacked by other people’s agendas? If you answered yes to any of these, the way out is the Way of the Essentialist. Essentialism is more than a time-management strategy or a productivity technique. It is a systematic discipline for discerning what is absolutely essential, then eliminating everything that is not, so we can make the highest possible contribution toward the things that really matter. By forcing us to apply more selective criteria for what is Essential, the disciplined pursuit of less empowers us to reclaim control of our own choices about where to spend our precious time and energy—instead of giving others the implicit permission to choose for us. Essentialism is not one more thing—it’s a whole new way of doing everything. It’s about doing less, but better, in every area of our lives. Essentialism is a movement whose time has come.