The Commitment

Author : Roddy Doyle
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307833082

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The Commitments by Roddy Doyle Pdf

In the first volume of the Barrytown Trilogy, Roddy Doyle, winner of the Booker Prize for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, introduces The Commitments, a group of fame-starved, working-class Irish youths with a paradoxical passion for the music of Sam Cooke and Otis Redding and a mission—to bring Soul to Dublin. Doyle writes about the band with a fan's enthusiasm and about Dublin with a native's cheerful knowingness. His book captures all the shadings of the rock experience: ambition, greed, and egotism—ans the redeeming, exhilarating joy of making music. The Commitments is one of the most engaging and believable novels about rock'n'roll ever written, a book whose brashness and originality have won it mainstream acclaim and underground cachet.

Author : Jodi Chapman,Dan Teck
Publisher : Soulful Journals
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Commitment Book: Helping You Keep Your Word to Yourself by Jodi Chapman,Dan Teck Pdf

A 4-Step Plan that Guides You Toward Your Goals and Holds You Accountable for Achieving Them Have you ever gotten really excited about a goal that you wanted to achieve and then had a hard time following through with it? Do you frequently say that you're going to do something and then either forget about it or get too busy and end up not doing it? If so, The Commitment Book can help! In it, we introduce you to our Commitment Training Program, which is a simple system that helps you come up with a realistic commitment and then holds you accountable for keeping it. We focus on keeping the commitment rather than the goal itself. When you can keep your word, your self esteem will immediately rise! Our system gives you the tools for a lifetime of following through on what you say you will do! It is broken into the following four steps: 1. Find your commitment 2. Commit to your commitment 3. Keep your commitment 4. Celebrate, re-evaluate, and recommit to your commitment It is written to be a workbook and gives you the opportunity to really explore what you want to commit to in life. It is great for individuals to use to follow their goals. It's also a great tool for families, teachers, counselors, and corporations. An excerpt from the introduction: Do you want to change anything about your life? Maybe you've already tried but ran out of steam (or got distracted, lost interest, or decided you didn't have time) before you accomplished your goal. If so, you're not alone! Most people already know what they want and how to get it. So why isn't everyone accomplishing their goals and living their dreams? Commitment. If you can commit to change, this book can help.

Author : Dr Richard S Grayson,Richard S. Grayson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317958048

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Austen Chamberlain and the Commitment to Europe by Dr Richard S Grayson,Richard S. Grayson Pdf

This is a study of Austen Chamberlain's term of office as Stanley Baldwin's Foreign Secretary from 1924-29. It is argued that Chamberlain's priority was a two-stage policy in Western Europe, which aimed at pacifying both France and Germany, as well as encouraging the League of Nations.

Author : Dan Savage
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101213322

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The Commitment by Dan Savage Pdf

Dan Savage’s mother wants him to get married. His boyfriend, Terry, says “no thanks” because he doesn’t want to act like a straight person. Their six-year-old son DJ says his two dads aren’t “allowed” to get married, but that he’d like to come to the reception and eat cake. Throw into the mix Dan’s straight siblings, whose varied choices form a microcosm of how Americans are approaching marriage these days, and you get a rollicking family memoir that will have everyone—gay or straight, right or left, single or married—howling with laughter and rethinking their notions of marriage and all it entails.

Author : Karen D. Badger
Publisher : Badger Bliss Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1945761342

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Udder Nonsense: Book Ten of the Commitment Series by Karen D. Badger Pdf

The Twilight Zone has nothing on the Charland family in this rip-roaringly interlude and adventurous 'who-done-it'! After the life altering experience during the shooting at Nassau High School, Cat and Billie decide to move their family to a 'safer' place in the country to try their hand at farming. What happens next gives new meaning to the phrase, 'You can take the girl out of the city, but you can't take the city out of the girl!' Down is up and up is down in this side-splitting episode in the lives of the Charland clan!

Author : Howard J. Klein,Thomas E. Becker,John P. Meyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135389840

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Commitment in Organizations by Howard J. Klein,Thomas E. Becker,John P. Meyer Pdf

Commitment is one of the most researched concepts in organizational behavior. This edited book in the SIOP Organizational Frontiers series, with contributions from many scholars, attempts to summarize current research and suggests new directions for studies on commitment in organizations. Commitment is linked to other concepts ie. satisfaction, involvement, motivation, and identification and is studied across cultural lines. Both the individual and group levels of building and maintaining commitment are discussed.

Author : Douglas N. Walton,Erik C. W. Krabbe
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791425851

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Commitment in Dialogue by Douglas N. Walton,Erik C. W. Krabbe Pdf

This book develops a logical analysis of dialogue in which two or more parties attempt to advance their own interests. It includes a classification of the major types of dialogues and a discussion of several important informal fallacies. The authors define the concept of commitment in a way that makes it useful in evaluating arguments. In traditional logic, a proposition is either true or false, and that is the end of it. In this new framework, an arguer can be held to his or her commitments in some cases, but in other cases, he or she can retract them without violating any rule of the dialogue. Commitment in Dialogue studies the conditions under which commitments should be held or may be retracted within an argument. An extensive case study of a discussion in medical ethics is used to bring together two traditions or schools of thought that had not been integrated previously - the rigorous Lorenzen school of formal logic, and the more permissive Hamblin-style dialogue. It introduces these methods of evaluation and offers guidelines for analyzing the text of discourse. The book could be used in both intermediate and advanced courses in informal logic, argumentation, and critical thinking, but it is accessible to the reader with no background in these fields as well. Each chapter is summarized, and additional problems to be solved are presented.

Author : Armand Louis McGarry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCR:31210023565821

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Civil Commitment and Social Policy by Armand Louis McGarry Pdf

Author : Molly Andrews
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1991-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521422493

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Lifetimes of Commitment by Molly Andrews Pdf

Explores the ways in which political belief is developed and sustained throughout the course of a lifetime. Through interviews, it focuses on the lives of 15 British men and women, aged between 70 and 90, who have dedicated half a century or longer to working for social change and justice.

Author : Björn Röber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319691022

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Escalation of Commitment in Internationalization Processes by Björn Röber Pdf

This unique book on international business presents a critical review of the role of bounded rationality in internationalization process (IP) research. Corporate internationalization processes have been a subject of scientific debate for several decades. However, it is questionable whether behavioral research insights are sufficiently acknowledged in this academic discipline. Against this backdrop, the author critically assesses the behavioral assumptions of the Uppsala Model, which is commonly considered to be the pivotal approach in internationalization process research.

Author : United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Mortgage guarantee insurance
ISBN : MINN:30000010617771

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Mortgagees Guide Application Through Commitment by United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045461162

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Commitment of Insane Persons to Veterans' and Other United State Institutions by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : Tom Kendrick
Publisher : AMACOM
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780814413418

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Identifying and Managing Project Risk by Tom Kendrick Pdf

Winner of the Project Management Institute’s David I. Cleland Project Management Literature Award 2010 It’s no wonder that project managers spend so much time focusing their attention on risk identification. Important projects tend to be time constrained, pose huge technical challenges, and suffer from a lack of adequate resources. Identifying and Managing Project Risk, now updated and consistent with the very latest Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)® Guide, takes readers through every phase of a project, showing them how to consider the possible risks involved at every point in the process. Drawing on real-world situations and hundreds of examples, the book outlines proven methods, demonstrating key ideas for project risk planning and showing how to use high-level risk assessment tools. Analyzing aspects such as available resources, project scope, and scheduling, this new edition also explores the growing area of Enterprise Risk Management. Comprehensive and completely up-to-date, this book helps readers determine risk factors thoroughly and decisively...before a project gets derailed.

Author : New York (State). Courts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1148 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : NYPL:33433009480223

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The New York State Reporter by New York (State). Courts Pdf

Author : Patrick M. Jenlink
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475854848

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A Commitment to Teaching by Patrick M. Jenlink Pdf

A Commitment to Teaching: Toward More Efficacious Teacher Preparation introduces the reader to a collection of thoughtful works by authors that represent current research and thinking about teacher self-efficacy and teacher preparation. It is the intent of the book to provide the reader with current and relevant knowledge concerning preparation of committed and efficacious teachers. Teacher self-efficacy, and the presence of teacher efficacy, in teacher preparation and practice, is fundamental to preparing teachers for the public school classroom. As a construct, teacher self-efficacy beliefs are an integral aspect of the teaching process. While many authors refer to teachers’ sense of self-efficacy for teaching, meaning their beliefs about their ability to perform the actions necessary to teach, many others have identified a specific form of self-efficacy pertaining to teaching. These have been called teaching or teacher efficacy. Chapter One opens the book with a focus on the teacher commitment and self-efficacy, providing the reader with an introduction. The authors of Chapters Two-Seven present field-based research that examines the complexities efficacy and commitment in the preparation of teachers. Each chapter offers the reader an examination of teacher self-efficacy and teacher preparation and based on formal research that provides the reader with insight into how the research study was conducted as well as equally important, the findings and conclusions drawn with respect teacher self-efficacy and teacher preparation. Finally, Chapter Nine presents an epilogue that focuses on the for more efficacious teacher preparation.