The Gap

Author : Stephen R. Donaldson
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307573858

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The Real Story by Stephen R. Donaldson Pdf

Author of The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant, one of the most acclaimed fantasy series of all time, master storyteller Stephen R. Donaldson retums with this exciting and long-awaited new series that takes us into a stunningly imagined future to tell a timeless story of adventure and the implacable conflict of good and evil within each of us. Angus Thermopyle was an ore pirate and a murderer; even the most disreputable asteroid pilots of Delta Sector stayed locked out of his way. Those who didn't ended up in the lockup--or dead. But when Thermopyle arrived at Mallory's Bar & Sleep with a gorgeous woman by his side the regulars had to take notice. Her name was Morn Hyland, and she had been a police officer--until she met up with Thermopyle. But one person in Mallorys Bar wasn't intimidated. Nick Succorso had his own reputation as a bold pirate and he had a sleek frigate fitted for deep space. Everyone knew that Thermopyle and Succorso were on a collision course. What nobody expected was how quickly it would be over--or how devastating victory would be. It was common enough example of rivalry and revenge--or so everyone thought. The REAL story was something entirely different. In The Real Story, Stephen R. Donaldson takes us to a remarkably detailed world of faster-than-light travel, politics, betrayal, and a shadowy presence just outside our view to tell the fiercest, most profound story he has ever written.

Author : Thomas Suddendorf
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780465069842

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The Gap by Thomas Suddendorf Pdf

There exists an undeniable chasm between the capacities of humans and those of animals. Our minds have spawned civilizations and technologies that have changed the face of the Earth, whereas even our closest animal relatives sit unobtrusively in their dwindling habitats. Yet despite longstanding debates, the nature of this apparent gap has remained unclear. What exactly is the difference between our minds and theirs? In The Gap, psychologist Thomas Suddendorf provides a definitive account of the mental qualities that separate humans from other animals, as well as how these differences arose. Drawing on two decades of research on apes, children, and human evolution, he surveys the abilities most often cited as uniquely human -- language, intelligence, morality, culture, theory of mind, and mental time travel -- and finds that two traits account for most of the ways in which our minds appear so distinct: Namely, our open-ended ability to imagine and reflect on scenarios, and our insatiable drive to link our minds together. These two traits explain how our species was able to amplify qualities that we inherited in parallel with our animal counterparts; transforming animal communication into language, memory into mental time travel, sociality into mind reading, problem solving into abstract reasoning, traditions into culture, and empathy into morality. Suddendorf concludes with the provocative suggestion that our unrivalled status may be our own creation -- and that the gap is growing wider not so much because we are becoming smarter but because we are killing off our closest intelligent animal relatives. Weaving together the latest findings in animal behavior, child development, anthropology, psychology, and neuroscience, this book will change the way we think about our place in nature. A major argument for reconsidering what makes us human, The Gap is essential reading for anyone interested in our evolutionary origins and our relationship with the rest of the animal kingdom.

Author : Robert Morgan
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616201784

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Gap Creek by Robert Morgan Pdf

A New York Times Bestseller & Oprah's Book Club Pick Young Julie Harmon works “hard as a man,” they say, so hard that at times she’s not sure she can stop. People depend on her to slaughter the hogs and nurse the dying. People are weak, and there is so much to do. At just seventeen she marries and moves down into the valley of Gap Creek, where perhaps life will be better. But Julie and Hank’s new life in the valley, in the last years of the nineteenth century, is more complicated than the couple ever imagined. Sometimes it’s hard to tell what to fear most—the fires and floods or the flesh-and-blood grifters, drunks, and busybodies who insinuate themselves into their new life. To survive, they must find out whether love can keep chaos and madness at bay. Their struggles with nature, with work, with the changing century, and with the disappointments and triumphs of their union make Gap Creek a timeless story of a marriage.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Minorities
ISBN : STANFORD:36105214599347

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Closing the Gap by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317879893

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Mind The Gap by Peter Wilson Pdf

We rarely speak or even write in the complete sentences that are often held to be the ideal form of linguistic communication. Language is, in fact, full of gaps, because speakers and writers operate in contexts which allow bits of language to be understood rather than expressed. This book systematically analyses this inherent gappiness of language, known as ellipsis, and provides an account of the different contexts, both linguistic and situational, which affect its use. Peter Wilson draws on a wide variety of examples of spoken and written English, and both literary and non-literary to present a comprehensive classification of elliptical language that ranges from the conversational fragment and the advertisement to the dialogue of Shakespeare and imagist poetry. Mind the Gap shows how ellipsis is a feature of major structural and stylistic importance to our understanding of spoken and written language, and will be of interest to undergraduate students of linguistics, literature, communication and the interrelations between them..

Author : Benjamin Gilmour
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781760890216

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The Gap by Benjamin Gilmour Pdf

In this riveting memoir, Gilmour recounts the call-outs that summer: some dangerous, some gruesome, some downright ridiculous. And we meet fellow paramedic Tom who, they say, can get a laugh out of everyone except the dead. As the city heats up that summer, however, even Tom begins to lose his sense of humour. People are unravelling – and Benjamin and Tom are no exception. The Gap is a vivid portrait of the lead-up to Christmas; an unflinching, no-holds-barred look at what happens after the triple-zero call is made – the drugs, nightclubs, brothels, drunk rich kids, billionaires, domestic disputes, the elderly, emergency births, even a kidnapping. Patients share their innermost feelings, and we witness their loneliness, their despair and their hopes. Beautifully written and sharply observed, The Gap exposes the fragility of our lives and the lengths the paramedics will go to to try to save us.

Author : Pamela Aall,Chester A. Crocker
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781928096221

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Minding the Gap by Pamela Aall,Chester A. Crocker Pdf

The prevailing narrative on Africa is that it is awash with violent conflict. Indeed, it does suffer from a multitude of conflicts — from border skirmishes to civil wars to terrorist attacks. Conflicts in Africa are diverse and complex, but there have been a number of cases of successful conflict management and resolution. What accounts for the successes and failures, and what can we learn from Africa’s experience? Minding the Gap: African Conflict Management in a Time of Change takes on these questions, bringing together more than 20 experts to examine the source of conflicts in Africa and assess African management capacity in the face of these conflicts.

Author : Scot Douglass
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0820474630

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Theology of the Gap by Scot Douglass Pdf

Between the Councils of Nicaea (AD 325) and Constantinople (AD 381), the Trinitarian controversy turned on a heated and complex discourse about the possibility of discourse. Theology of the Gap examines how the Cappadocians initially turned to the limitations of language to defeat their Neo-Arian opponents, and discovered in the process the very resources for their own production of theology and the promotion of a certain style of Christian becoming. Scot Douglass uses insights from literary theory in order to re-open the gaps central to the Cappadocians' construction of created reality, and also to map out the coherencies they forged between the diastemic and kinetic structures of creation, language, theology, truth, spirituality, and silence. In doing so, Douglass invites the reader not only to reconsider how diastemic epistemology works itself out in Cappadocian thought, but also how this register of the Cappadocian voice speaks to contemporary notions of post-Christian theology.

Author : J. Wallace,Patricia Wouters
Publisher : IWA Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781843390701

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Hydrology and Water Law - Bridging the Gap by J. Wallace,Patricia Wouters Pdf

With "integrated water resources management" (IWRM) the current buzzword in international circles, the real question is: how to operationalise a truly multidisciplinary approach to the effective management of shared watercourses. Based largely on the actual experience of HELP (Hydrology for the Environment, Life and Policy), the overall aim of the book is to produce a series of case studies from around the world (from the Aral Sea to Zimbabwe) that demonstrate how the "gaps" between hydrology, water law and management are actually bridged in practice. Is hydrological data relevant and used in the formulation of national and international water law and policy? Cases cited include examples of where this has happened and been successful or unsuccessful and where this has not happened and led to problems. This will act as a guide to how future water laws and polices can be made more effective via the use of accurate and up to date hydrological information.

Author : Sean O'Shea
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692987282

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Closing the Gap by Sean O'Shea Pdf

Author : Dan Sullivan,Dr. Benjamin Hardy
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781401964368

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The Gap and The Gain by Dan Sullivan,Dr. Benjamin Hardy Pdf

As he did in WHO NOT HOW, Dr. Benjamin Hardy shares one of Dan Sullivan’s simple yet profound teachings that until now has been known only to his Strategic Coach clients: unsuccessful people focus on “The Gap,” but successful people focus on “The Gain.” "[T]his one simple concept is a masterclass on positive psychology, healthy relationships, mental well-being, and high-performance. Everything that psychologists know about how to create a high-functioning and successful person can be achieved using The GAP and the GAIN."- Dr. Benjamin Hardy Most people, especially highly ambitious people, are unhappy because of how they measure their progress. We all have an "ideal," a moving target that is always out of reach. When we measure ourselves against that ideal, we're in "the GAP." However, when we measure ourselves against our previous selves, we're in "the GAIN." That is where the GAP and the GAIN concept comes in. It was developed by legendary entrepreneur coach Dan Sullivan and is based on his work with tens of thousands of successful entrepreneurs. When Dan's coaching clients periodically take stock of all that they've accomplished-both personally and professionally-they are often shocked at how much they have actually achieved. They weren't able to appreciate their progress because no matter how much they were getting done, they were usually measuring themselves against their ideals or goals. In this book you will learn that measuring your current self vs. your former self has enormous psychological benefits. And that's really the key to this deceptively simple yet multi-layered concept that will have you feeling good, feeling grateful, and feeling like you are making progress even when times are tough, which will in turn bolster motivation, confidence, and future success. If you're finding that happiness eludes you no matter how much you've achieved, then learning this easy mindset shift will set you on a life-changing path to greater fulfillment and success.

Author : John SanGiovanni
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781506375502

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Mine the Gap for Mathematical Understanding, Grades 3-5 by John SanGiovanni Pdf

Being an effective math educator is one part based on the quality of the tasks we give, one part how we diagnose what we see, and one part what we do with what we find. Yet with so many students and big concepts to cover, it can be hard to slow down enough to look for those moments when students’ responses tell us what we need to know about next best steps. In this remarkable book, John SanGiovanni helps us value our students’ misconceptions and incomplete understandings as much as their correct ones—because it’s the gap in their understanding today that holds the secrets to planning tomorrow’s best teaching. SanGiovanni lays out 180 high-quality tasks aligned to the standards and big ideas of Grades 3-5 mathematics, including addition and subtraction of multi-digit whole numbers, multiplication and division of single and multi-digit whole numbers, foundational fraction concepts, foundational decimal concepts, and operations with fractions and decimals. The tasks are all downloadable so you can use or modify them for instruction and assessment. Each big idea offers a starting task followed by: what makes it a high-quality task what you might anticipate before students work with the task 4 student examples of the completed task showcasing a distinct “gap” commentary on what precisely counts for mathematical understanding and the next instructional steps commentary on the misconception or incomplete understanding so you learn why the student veered off course three additional tasks aligned to the mathematics topic and ideas about what students might do with these additional tasks. It’s time to break our habit of rushing into re-teaching for correctness and instead get curious about the space between right and wrong answers. Mine the Gap for Mathematical Understanding is a book you will return to again and again to get better at selecting tasks that will uncover students’ reasoning—better at discerning the quality and clarity of students’ understanding—and better at planning teaching based on the gaps you see.

Author : Lely Novia,Ananta Vidya
Publisher : Ananta Vidya
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9786238453146

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The Art of Intercultural Communication: Tips and Techniques for Bridging the Gap by Lely Novia,Ananta Vidya Pdf

The Art of Intercultural Communication: Tips and Techniques for Bridging the Gap is a practical guidebook that provides readers with the tools and strategies needed to effectively communicate across cultures. The book emphasizes the importance of understanding cultural differences and how they impact communication, and provides readers with tips and techniques for navigating these differences. The guidebook covers a range of topics, including effective communication, cultural awareness, and strategies for building trust and rapport with people from different cultures. The book also includes case studies and real-world examples to help readers apply the concepts and techniques discussed in the book. Whether you are a business professional, a student, or simply someone who wants to improve their intercultural communication skills, The Art of Intercultural Communication is an essential resource for bridging the gap between cultures and building meaningful relationships.

Author : Katy Bell
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789690866

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Bridging the Gap in Maritime Archaeology: Working with Professional and Public Communities by Katy Bell Pdf

Proceedings of a conference session held at CIfA 2014. The session focused on ways in which it is possible to engage with a wider audience in the course of maritime archaeological work. Papers offer a series of case studies exhibiting best practice with regard to individual maritime projects and examples of outreach to local communities.

Author : Emma Kowal
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782386001

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Trapped in the Gap by Emma Kowal Pdf

In Australia, a ‘tribe’ of white, middle-class, progressive professionals is actively working to improve the lives of Indigenous people. This book explores what happens when well-meaning people, supported by the state, attempt to help without harming. ‘White anti-racists’ find themselves trapped by endless ambiguities, contradictions, and double binds — a microcosm of the broader dilemmas of postcolonial societies. These dilemmas are fueled by tension between the twin desires of equality and difference: to make Indigenous people statistically the same as non-Indigenous people (to 'close the gap') while simultaneously maintaining their ‘cultural’ distinctiveness. This tension lies at the heart of failed development efforts in Indigenous communities, ethnic minority populations and the global South. This book explains why doing good is so hard, and how it could be done differently.