Unprepared

Author : Alan Lew
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0759528217

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This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared by Alan Lew Pdf

There are times in life when we are caught utterly unprepared: a death in the family, the end of a relationship, a health crisis. These are the times when the solid ground we thought we stood on disappears beneath our feet, leaving us reeling and heartbroken, as we stumble back to our faith. The Days of Awe encompass the weeks preceding Rosh Hashanah up to Yom Kippur, a period in which Jews take part in a series of rituals and prayers that reenact the journey of the soul through the world from birth to death. This is a period of contemplation and repentance, comparable to Lent and Ramadan. Yet, for Rabbi Alan Lew, the real purpose of this annual passage is for us to experience brokenheartedness and open our heart to God. In This is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared, Lew has marked out a journey of seven distinct stages, one that draws on these rituals to awaken our soul and wholly transform us. Weaving together Torah readings, Buddhist parables, Jewish fables and stories from his own life, Lew lays bare the meanings of this ancient Jewish passage. He reveals the path from terror to acceptance, confusion to clarity, doubt to belief, and from complacency to awe. In the tradition of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, This Is Real And You Are Completely Unprepared enables believers of all faiths to reconnect to their faith with a passion and intimacy that will resonate throughout the year.

Author : Andrew Lakoff
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520295766

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Unprepared by Andrew Lakoff Pdf

A continuous state of readiness -- The generic biological threat -- Two regimes of global health -- Real-time biopolitics -- A fragile assemblage -- Diagnosing failure -- Epilogue

Author : Meg Little Reilly
Publisher : MIRA
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460395882

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We Are Unprepared by Meg Little Reilly Pdf

Meg Little Reilly places a young couple in harm’s way—both literally and emotionally—as they face a cataclysmic storm that threatens to decimate their Vermont town, and the Eastern Seaboard in her penetrating debut novel, WE ARE UNPREPARED. Ash and Pia move from hipster Brooklyn to rustic Vermont in search of a more authentic life. But just months after settling in, the forecast of a superstorm disrupts their dream. Fear of an impending disaster splits their tight-knit community and exposes the cracks in their marriage. Where Isole was once a place of old farm families, rednecks and transplants, it now divides into paranoid preppers, religious fanatics and government tools, each at odds about what course to take. WE ARE UNPREPARED is an emotional journey, a terrifying glimpse into the human costs of our changing earth and, ultimately, a cautionary tale of survival and the human

Author : Sonya Barlow
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781398601475

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Unprepared to Entrepreneur by Sonya Barlow Pdf

SHORTLISTED: Business Book Awards 2022 - Start Up/Scale Up Times have changed: you can launch a successful enterprise with your phone, sell through social media and tap into a whole world of opportunities. Unprepared to Entrepreneur is an honest guide to launching your own business, sharing real stories from real people who have tested, failed and won at business. It profiles the underdogs, those who brainstormed ideas whilst travelling on the bus, started a business from their phone and managed to create three income streams whilst maintaining a full-time job in the city to show you that you can do it too. From a working Google doc as your business plan, to ideation strategies that live and die off Instagram engagement; they won't teach you this at business school. Sonya Barlow takes a look at the resilience needed to make it in business, the incredible tax on mental health and the non-negotiable steps to creating a viable business. This is the ultimate guide to side hustling, freelancing and entrepreneurial freedom of the future.

Author : Paul Slade
Publisher : Soundcheck Books
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780992948078

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Unprepared To Die by Paul Slade Pdf

The Gory Stories Behind The Murder Ballads Cheerfully vulgar, revelling in gore, and always with an eye on the main chance, murder ballads are tabloid newspapers set to music, carrying word of the latest ‘orrible murders to an insatiable public. Victims are bludgeoned, stabbed or shot in every verse and killers often hanged, but the songs themselves never die. Instead, they mutate – morphing to suit local place names as they criss cross the Atlantic and continue to fascinate each generation’s biggest musical stars. Paul Slade traces this fascinating genre’s history through eight of its greatest songs. Stagger Lee’s “biographers” alone include Duke Ellington, James Brown, Bob Dylan, Dr John, The Clash and Nick Cave. No two tell his story in quite the same way. Covering eight classic murder ballads, including “Knoxville Girl”, “Tom Dooley” and “Frankie & Johnny”, Slade investigates the real-life murder which inspired each song and traces its musical development down the decades. Billy Bragg, The Bad Seeds’ Mick Harvey, Laura Cantrell, Rennie Sparks of The Handsome Family and a host of other leading musicians add their own insights.

Author : Andrew Lakoff
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520968417

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Unprepared by Andrew Lakoff Pdf

Recent years have witnessed an upsurge in global health emergencies—from SARS to pandemic influenza to Ebola to Zika. Each of these occurrences has sparked calls for improved health preparedness. In Unprepared, Andrew Lakoff follows the history of health preparedness from its beginnings in 1950s Cold War civil defense to the early twenty-first century, when international health authorities carved out a global space for governing potential outbreaks. Alert systems and trigger devices now link health authorities, government officials, and vaccine manufacturers, all of whom are concerned with the possibility of a global pandemic. Funds have been devoted to cutting-edge research on pathogenic organisms, and a system of post hoc diagnosis analyzes sites of failed preparedness to find new targets for improvement. Yet, despite all these developments, the project of global health security continues to be unsettled by the prospect of surprise.

Author : Tom Abrahams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798619052640

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Unprepared by Tom Abrahams Pdf

A mutating plague is spreading. It's killing two of every three people on Earth. And Mike Crenshaw is totally unprepared. From the world of The Traveler Series comes a new cast of characters, new obstacles, and the same devastating, world-altering virus which plunges society into the depth of a dystopian hell. UNPREPARED begins in the hours before The Scourge takes hold. As if ripped from today's headlines, governments react too slowly and the disease spreads too fast. Quarantines don't work. Infrastructure fails. People die. Follow Mike and his friends as they try to survive this new landscape and find out how the world in which The Traveler Series was set came into being. It's a thrill ride that will keep you up at night with the lights on and the doors locked.

Author : Kathleen F. Gabriel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000980356

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Teaching Unprepared Students by Kathleen F. Gabriel Pdf

As societal expectations about attending college have grown, professors report increasing numbers of students who are unprepared for the rigors of postsecondary education—not just more students with learning disabilities (whose numbers have more than tripled), but students (with and without special admission status) who are academically at-risk because of inadequate reading, writing and study skills. This book provides professors and their graduate teaching assistants—those at the front line of interactions with students—with techniques and approaches they can use in class to help at-risk students raise their skills so that they can successfully complete their studies.The author shares proven practices that will not only engage all students in a class, but also create the conditions—while maintaining high standards and high expectations—to enable at-risk and under-prepared students to develop academically and graduate with good grades. The author also explains how to work effectively with academic support units on campus. Within the framework of identifying those students who need help, establishing a rapport with them, adopting inclusive teaching strategies, and offering appropriate guidance, the book presents the theory teachers will need, and effective classroom strategies. The author covers teaching philosophy and goals; issues of discipline and behavior; motivation and making expectations explicit; classroom climate and learning styles; developing time management and study skills; as well as the application of “universal design” strategies.The ideas presented here—that the author has successfully employed over many years—can be easily integrated into any class.

Author : Matt M. Matthews
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781437923049

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We Were Caught Unprepared by Matt M. Matthews Pdf

This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. The fact that the outcome of the 2006 Hezbollah-Israeli War was, at best, a stalemate for Israel has confounded military analysts. Long considered the most professional and powerful army in the Middle East, with a history of impressive military victories against its enemies, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) emerged from the campaign with its enemies undefeated and its prestige tarnished. This historical analysis of the war includes an examination of IDF and Hezbollah doctrine prior to the war, as well as an overview of the operational and tactical problems encountered by the IDF during the war. The IDF ground forces were tactically unprepared and untrained to fight against a determined Hezbollah force. ¿An insightful, comprehensive examination of the war.¿ Illustrations.

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23T22:59:00Z
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9798350016925

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Summary of Alan Lew's This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared by Everest Media, Pdf

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Judaism came into the world to announce that the invisible is more important than the visible. Beneath the appearance of conflict, multiplicity, and caprice there is a oneness, a singularity that is all-powerful and endlessly compassionate. #2 The Jewish people annually reflect on the great journey that every human being must make across this world: from Tisha B’Av to Sukkot, from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur, from birth to death and back to renewal again. #3 The Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, which marks the start of the New Year, is never mentioned in the Torah. It is a day when we are supposed to remember God. The Jewish holiday of Yom Ha-Zikaron, which marked the start of the New Year in biblical times, was called the Day of Remembrance. #4 The Day of the Blowing of the Horn for Remembrance is connected to Yom Ha-Kippurim, the Day of Atonement, which was the most important day of atonement in biblical times. It was a day when we began to see ourselves through the eyes of a consciousness beyond us.

Author : Jon Sternfeld
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781635577211

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Unprepared by Jon Sternfeld Pdf

"An essential volume." -E. J. Dionne, Jr. * "A damning portrait" -Publishers Weekly With an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winner Timothy Egan, the riveting, eye-opening first-draft history of the Covid-19 pandemic. Unprepared is the sweeping history of the Covid-19 pandemic-a raw, primary-source accounting of the epoch-defining event: a virus that first appeared in China in late 2019 and spread rapidly across the globe, killing hundreds of thousands, devastating economies, and changing the modern world forever. A day-by-day chronicle of the response to Covid-19 as it attacked, Unprepared gathers a range of public statements from President Trump and his administration, elected officials such as New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, leading journalists and scientists, and organizations from National Nurses United to the United Food and Commercial Workers union. A haunting portrait of the world scrambling for answers while the number of cases rose alongside the death toll, the book reveals not only our strengths as a people, but also the fault lines and dysfunction that plague our nation in the new millennium. Unprepared is an illuminating artifact for today and for future generations, an astonishing document of history being made, and a multifaceted narrative that drops the reader directly into the real-time experience of confusion, drama, and fear that defines the outbreak of Covid-19.

Author : Ted Koppel
Publisher : Crown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Book clubs (Discussion groups)
ISBN : 9780553419962

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Lights Out by Ted Koppel Pdf

A nation unprepared : surviving the aftermath of a blackout where tens of millions of people over several states are affected.

Author : Jean M. Twenge
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501152023

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iGen by Jean M. Twenge Pdf

As seen in Time, USA TODAY, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and on CBS This Morning, BBC, PBS, CNN, and NPR, iGen is crucial reading to understand how the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later are vastly different from their Millennial predecessors, and from any other generation. With generational divides wider than ever, parents, educators, and employers have an urgent need to understand today’s rising generation of teens and young adults. Born in the mid-1990s up to the mid-2000s, iGen is the first generation to spend their entire adolescence in the age of the smartphone. With social media and texting replacing other activities, iGen spends less time with their friends in person—perhaps contributing to their unprecedented levels of anxiety, depression, and loneliness. But technology is not the only thing that makes iGen distinct from every generation before them; they are also different in how they spend their time, how they behave, and in their attitudes toward religion, sexuality, and politics. They socialize in completely new ways, reject once sacred social taboos, and want different things from their lives and careers. More than previous generations, they are obsessed with safety, focused on tolerance, and have no patience for inequality. With the first members of iGen just graduating from college, we all need to understand them: friends and family need to look out for them; businesses must figure out how to recruit them and sell to them; colleges and universities must know how to educate and guide them. And members of iGen also need to understand themselves as they communicate with their elders and explain their views to their older peers. Because where iGen goes, so goes our nation—and the world.

Author : Larry D. Rose
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459710665

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Mobilize! by Larry D. Rose Pdf

Why was Canada not preparing for the Second World War when the rest of the world was ready to meet Hitler’s threats? Despite Canada’s active participation in the First World War, which many claimed made Canada a nation, the country was almost defenceless in September 1939 when war was declared again. Larry D. Rose, a long-time journalist and a military specialist, examines the military’s own failures, the hidden agenda of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, and the divisions within Canada leading up to Canada’s entry into the war. He suggests that the lack of preparedness was directly responsible for two of Canada’s costliest military defeats: the battle of Hong Kong and Dieppe.

Author : George Walbridge Perkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015022421591

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We are as Unprepared for Peace as We are for War by George Walbridge Perkins Pdf