This Love Is Not For Cowards

Author : Robert Andrew Powell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781608197170

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This Love Is Not for Cowards by Robert Andrew Powell Pdf

More than ten people are murdered every day in Ciudad Juárez, a city about the size of Philadelphia. As Mexico has descended into a feudal narco-state-one where cartels, death squads, the army, and local police all fight over billions of dollars in profits from drug and human trafficking-the border city of Juárez has been hit hardest of all. And yet, more than a million people still live there. They even love their impoverished city, proudly repeating its mantra: "Amor por Juárez." Nothing exemplifies the spirit and hope of Juarenses more than the Indios, the city's beloved but hard-luck soccer team. Sport may seem a meager distraction, but to many it's a lifeline. It drew charismatic American midfielder Marco Vidal back from Dallas to achieve the athletic dreams of his Mexican father. Team owner Francisco Ibarra and Mayor José Reyes Ferriz both thrive on soccer. So does the dubiously named crew of Indios fans, El Kartel. In this honest, unflinching, and powerful book, Robert Andrew Powell chronicles a season of soccer in this treacherous city just across the Rio Grande, and the moments of pain, longing, and redemption along the way. As he travels across Mexico with the team, Powell reflects on this struggling nation and its watchful neighbor to the north. This story is not just about sports, or even community, but the strength of humanity in a place where chaos reigns.

Author : Shirley Dyckes Kelley,Elizabeth Gullander
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0135410290

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Love is Not for Cowards by Shirley Dyckes Kelley,Elizabeth Gullander Pdf

Author : Matt Walsh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621579212

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Church of Cowards by Matt Walsh Pdf

What Would You Surrender for God? Christians in the Middle East, in much of Asia, and in Africa are still being martyred for the faith, but how many American Christians are willing to lay down their smartphones, let alone their lives, for the faith? Being a Christian in America doesn’t require much these days. Suburban megachurches are more like entertainment venues than places to worship God. The lives that American “Christians” lead aren’t much different from those of their atheist neighbors, and their knowledge of theology isn’t much better either. Matt Walsh of The Daily Wire exposes the pitiful state of Christianity in America today, lays out the stakes for us, our families, and our eternal salvation, and invites us to a faith that’s a lot less easy and comfortable—but that’s more real and actually worth something. The spiritual junk food we’re stuffing ourselves with is never going to satisfy. As St. Augustine said over a millennium ago, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him. Only God Himself can make our lives anything but ultimately meaningless and empty. And we will never get anywhere near Him if we refuse to take up our cross and follow Jesus. This rousing call to the real adventure of a living faith is a wake-up call to complacent Christians and a rallying cry for anyone dissatisfied with a lukewarm faith.

Author : Tim Clare
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781838853112

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Coward by Tim Clare Pdf

After a decade of living with panic attacks and anxiety, Tim Clare made a promise to himself – he would try everything he could to get better, every method and medicine. His year of treatments took him from anti-depressants to hypnosis, running to extreme diets, ice baths to faecal transplants. At the end of it he discovers what helps him (and what doesn’t), and what might help others. Most of all, he comes to rethink anxiety and encourages all of us to do the same.

Author : Francis Okumu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-16
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1507772599

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Love Is Not for Cowards by Francis Okumu Pdf

The freshness and uniqueness upon which Francis has used to approach the whole topic of love is simply invaluable. This book is simply a must have for any person living today.You will only need to go through the first chapter of this book in order to get introduced to what awaits you on the inside. Every chapter in this book is memorable and invaluable. Some of the priceless lines inside this book include: Commitment in most relationships died long ago and instead, lack of commitment has reincarnated today into an experienced Goliath, in a land where David is already dead and buried. Show me anyone who may be willing to face the new Goliath? ..... Truth which was once a priceless virtue in most relationships is now in serious comma, in intensive care unit. And in its place, a refined lie has violently been re-born. True love is now in real tangible danger. ... Lust has become the latest builder's favorite corner-stone, upon which most relationships are built on. ......No wonder most domestic animals have human-being like names. If not carefully put under check, then these animals may soon take over our matrimonial responsibilities.

Author : Mike Staver
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118240236

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Leadership Isn't For Cowards by Mike Staver Pdf

A no-nonsense guide to driving performance while still maintaining a great place to work Leadership Isn't For Cowards offers straightforward steps to leading courageously and practical tips for driving performance. Courageous leadership means toughening your approach by being rigorous in the application of your values through the company culture. It means confronting and challenging people, and not letting them get away with being less than you know they can be. The path to courageous leadership has six components: Accept Your Current Circumstances, Take Responsibility, Take Action, Acknowledge Progress, Commit to Lifelong Learning, and Kindle Relationships. These manageable steps include: Identify the area in your business or life where a gap exists between your current reality and your desired reality Align yourself with a person or a group of people who can commit to holding you accountable for closing the gap Make a specific commitment to the outcome(s) you want and assign dates to them With courageous leadership, you'll create a culture and a mindset that encourages and demands excellence! Follow these steps to bring out the best in your employees and lead your company to significant success.

Author : Colleen Hoover
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476753195

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Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover Pdf

From Colleen Hoover, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and It Ends with Us, a heart-wrenching love story that proves attraction at first sight can be messy. When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she doesn't think it's love at first sight. They wouldn’t even go so far as to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. Once their desires are out in the open, they realize they have the perfect set-up. He doesn’t want love, she doesn’t have time for love, so that just leaves the sex. Their arrangement could be surprisingly seamless, as long as Tate can stick to the only two rules Miles has for her. Never ask about the past. Don’t expect a future. They think they can handle it, but realize almost immediately they can’t handle it at all. Hearts get infiltrated. Promises get broken. Rules get shattered. Love gets ugly.

Author : Flea
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 1455530530

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Acid for the Children by Flea Pdf

New York Times BestsellerA #1 LA Times BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerOne of NPR's "Favorite Books of 2019" The iconic bassist and co-founder of the Red Hot Chili Peppers tells his fascinating origin story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the gutter lows you'd want from an LA street rat turned world famous rock star. In Acid for the Children, Flea takes readers on a deeply personal and revealing tour of his formative years, spanning from Australia to the New York City suburbs to, finally, Los Angeles. Through hilarious anecdotes, poetical meditations, and occasional flights of fantasy, Flea deftly chronicles the experiences that forged him as an artist, a musician, and a young man. His dreamy, jazz-inflected prose makes the Los Angeles of the 1970s and 80s come to gritty, glorious life, including the potential for fun, danger, mayhem, or inspiration that lurked around every corner. It is here that young Flea, looking to escape a turbulent home, found family in a community of musicians, artists, and junkies who also lived on the fringe. He spent most of his time partying and committing petty crimes. But it was in music where he found a higher meaning, a place to channel his frustration, loneliness, and love. This left him open to the life-changing moment when he and his best friends, soul brothers, and partners-in-mischief came up with the idea to start their own band, which became the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Acid for the Children is the debut of a stunning new literary voice, whose prose is as witty, entertaining, and wildly unpredictable as the author himself. It's a tenderly evocative coming-of-age story and a raucous love letter to the power of music and creativity from one of the most renowned musicians of our time.

Author : James C. Dobson
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0849940141

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Parenting Isn't for Cowards by James C. Dobson Pdf

Dr. Dobson offers advice to frustrated parents on ways to handle child-rearing responsibilities with self-confidence. He deals with the contest of wills between generations, with the perils of adolescence, and with the pervasive problem of parental burnout.

Author : Chris Walsh
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400852031

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Cowardice by Chris Walsh Pdf

A provocative look at how cowardice has been understood from ancient times to the present Coward. It's a grave insult, likely to provoke anger, shame, even violence. But what exactly is cowardice? When terrorists are called cowards, does it mean the same as when the term is applied to soldiers? And what, if anything, does cowardice have to do with the rest of us? Bringing together sources from court-martial cases to literary and film classics such as Dante's Inferno, The Red Badge of Courage, and The Thin Red Line, Cowardice recounts the great harm that both cowards and the fear of seeming cowardly have done, and traces the idea of cowardice’s power to its evolutionary roots. But Chris Walsh also shows that this power has faded, most dramatically on the battlefield. Misconduct that earlier might have been punished as cowardice has more recently often been treated medically, as an adverse reaction to trauma, and Walsh explores a parallel therapeutic shift that reaches beyond war, into the realms of politics, crime, philosophy, religion, and love. Yet, as Walsh indicates, the therapeutic has not altogether triumphed—contempt for cowardice endures, and he argues that such contempt can be a good thing. Courage attracts much more of our attention, but rigorously understanding cowardice may be more morally useful, for it requires us to think critically about our duties and our fears, and it helps us to act ethically when fear and duty conflict. Richly illustrated and filled with fascinating stories and insights, Cowardice is the first sustained analysis of a neglected but profound and pervasive feature of human experience.

Author : Josef Skvorecky
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307364142

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The Cowards by Josef Skvorecky Pdf

Girls, jazz, politics, the golden dreams and black comedy of youth--these are the compelling ingredients of The Cowards. May 1945, a small town in Czechoslovakia. The Germans are withdrawing. The Red Army is advancing. And Danny Smiricky is being forced to grow up fast. Observing with contempt the antics of the town's citizens playing it safe, he adopts the role first of reluctant conscript, then of dashing partisan. The Cowards is the story of an uncomplicated, talented youth caught up in momentous historic events who refuses to be bored to death by politics--or to lie down and die without a fight. --

Author : Vanessa Gebbie
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408826201

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The Coward's Tale by Vanessa Gebbie Pdf

The boy Laddy Merridew, sent to live with his grandmother, stumbles off the bus into a small Welsh mining community, where he begins an unlikely friendship with Ianto Passchendaele Jenkins, the town beggar-storyteller. Ianto is watchman over the legacy of the collapse many years ago of Kindly Light Pit, a disaster whose echoes reverberate down the generations of the town. Through Ianto's stories Laddy is drawn into both the town's history and the conundrums of the present. Why has woodwork teacher Icarus Evans striven most of his life to carve wooden feathers that will float on an updraft? Why is the undertaker Tutt Bevan trying to find a straight path through the town? Why does James Little, the old gas-meter emptier, dig his allotment by moonlight? And why does window cleaner Judah Jones take autumn leaves into a disused chapel? These and other men of the town, and the women who mothered them, married them and mourned them, are bound together by the echoes of the Kindly Light tragedy and by the mysterious figure of Ianto Jenkins, whose stories of loyalty and betrayal, loss and love, form an unforgettable, spellbinding tapestry. The Coward's Tale is a powerfully imagined, poetic and haunting novel, spiked with humour. It is a story of kinship and kindness, guilt and atonement, and the ways in which we carve the present out of an unforgiving past.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : English poetry
ISBN : HARVARD:32044090302621

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The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Author : Birgit Weber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Child psychology
ISBN : 1876451823

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Love Is Not for Cowards by Birgit Weber Pdf

Psychotherapist Weber believes that our childhood relationship with our parents sets the scene for our reaction to the loves we meet later on. Weber argues that it is only when we are prepared to face our inner conflicts and confront ourselves instead of blaming our partners for our problems, that we can develop a deeper and richer relationship.

Author : Chris Ayres
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781555845940

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War Reporting for Cowards by Chris Ayres Pdf

“Imagine George Costanza from Seinfeld being sent off to cover the Iraq War . . . Hilarious.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Chris Ayres is a small-town boy, a hypochondriac, and a neat freak with an anxiety disorder. Not exactly the picture of a war correspondent. But when his boss asks him if he would like to go to Iraq, he doesn’t have the guts to say no. After signing a one million dollar life-insurance policy, studying a tutorial on repairing severed limbs, and spending twenty thousand dollars on camping gear (only to find out that his bright yellow tent makes him a sitting duck), Ayres is embedded with a battalion of gung ho Marines who either shun him or threaten him when he files an unfavorable story. As time goes on, though, he begins to understand them (and his inexplicably enthusiastic fellow war reporters) more and more: Each night of terrifying combat brings, in the morning, something more visceral than he has ever experienced—the thrill of having won a fight for survival. War Reporting for Cowards tells, with “self-deprecating wit”, the story of Iraq in a way that is extraordinarily honest and bitterly hilarious (The New Yorker). “Heartbreakingly funny.” —Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead “Chris Ayres has invented a new genre: a rip-roaring tale of adventure and derring-don’t.” —Toby Young, author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People “Darkly entertaining.” —Los Angeles Times “Ayres’s stories of life with Marines are gripping—in part because he’s the perfect neurotic foil.” —People