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Author: Bob Vereen Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing ISBN: 1608444163 Category : Hardware industry Languages : en Pages : 150
Book Description
For 60 years, Bob Vereen has been a participant in-and observer of-the hardware industry, both in the U. S. and abroad. He ran a wholesale merchandising group, edited the industry's leading magazine for 30 years, founded a daily newspaper covering the National Hardware Show(r) as well as an international magazine called Worldwide Hardware, managed the Home Center Institute for a while, managed a trade association, the Worldwide DIY Council for 20 years and continues to be active in it currently. He was a key executive with the National Retail Hardware Association for decades, retiring in 1987 as senior vice president. He claims to have visited more than 10,000 hardware stores, lumberyards and home centers-which is probably understated. He continues to observe and write about the industry for a number of international hardware/home center publications.
Author: Bob Vereen Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing ISBN: 1608444163 Category : Hardware industry Languages : en Pages : 150
Book Description
For 60 years, Bob Vereen has been a participant in-and observer of-the hardware industry, both in the U. S. and abroad. He ran a wholesale merchandising group, edited the industry's leading magazine for 30 years, founded a daily newspaper covering the National Hardware Show(r) as well as an international magazine called Worldwide Hardware, managed the Home Center Institute for a while, managed a trade association, the Worldwide DIY Council for 20 years and continues to be active in it currently. He was a key executive with the National Retail Hardware Association for decades, retiring in 1987 as senior vice president. He claims to have visited more than 10,000 hardware stores, lumberyards and home centers-which is probably understated. He continues to observe and write about the industry for a number of international hardware/home center publications.
Author: Viktor E. Frankl Publisher: Beacon Press ISBN: 080700555X Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 138
Book Description
Find hope even in these dark times with this rediscovered masterpiece, a companion to his international bestseller Man’s Search for Meaning. Eleven months after he was liberated from the Nazi concentration camps, Viktor E. Frankl held a series of public lectures in Vienna. The psychiatrist, who would soon become world famous, explained his central thoughts on meaning, resilience, and the importance of embracing life even in the face of great adversity. Published here for the very first time in English, Frankl’s words resonate as strongly today—as the world faces a coronavirus pandemic, social isolation, and great economic uncertainty—as they did in 1946. He offers an insightful exploration of the maxim “Live as if you were living for the second time,” and he unfolds his basic conviction that every crisis contains opportunity. Despite the unspeakable horrors of the camps, Frankl learned from the strength of his fellow inmates that it is always possible to “say yes to life”—a profound and timeless lesson for us all.
Author: Susan Gregory Thomas Publisher: Random House Incorporated ISBN: 1400068827 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 242
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Describes how the author, who vowed her children would never suffer the pain she endured during her parents' divorce, was confronted by the realities of her own failed marriage, which compelled her to reevaluate her views about family.
Author: Ken Keyes Publisher: Love Line Books ISBN: 9780915972012 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 256
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The "twelve pathways" explained in this book are a modern, practical condensation of thousands of years of accumulated wisdom. A must for people sincerely interested in their personal growth.
Author: Leila Peters Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 145202409X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 270
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In Spite of Everything invites us into the lives of twenty-two ordinary, but also extraordinary women. Part Ellen DeGeneres, part Studs Terkel, Leila Peters allows the women to tell their own storiesabout their lives, their challenges, their relationships. The women trust herand usenough to share their difficulties and failures as well as their joys and successes and we are richer for their honesty. Although these women share being in long-term lesbian relationships, their lives are incredibly varied. We have much to learn from them about loving and living well. Dr. Nancy Marie Robertson, Director of Womens Studies Indiana University/ Purdue University. Indianapolis Leila Peters has chronicled the inspiring and captivating stories of lesbian couples from all walks of life who maintained long lasting and flourishing relationships in the face of a disapproving and sometimes hostile family and community. This book is important not only as an historical record of determined women who prevailed against the odds, but as powerful evidence of the urgent need to legitimize same-sex relationships through the legal recognition of gay marriage. Barbara Baird, Esquire, With Chuck Loring, Barbara organized the first Lambda Legal Indiana Benefit Dinner, a premiere fund raising event which benefits the legal needs of the LGBT community. Stories, storiesI just love to read stories! Warm, thought-provoking, hilarious, gut-wrenching, sexy, wonderful stories. Leila spins the tales of these womens lives sensitively, honestly, and with just the right amount of background. Mary Byrne, Executive Director of Indiana Youth Group In Spite of Everything balances painful stories of sickness, poverty, prejudice and repression with tales of romance, joy and passion. This book is a walk down the not-always-happy memory lanes of lesbian relationships in the latter half of the 20th century into the twenty-first century, rich with detail, and narrated in a matter-of-fact way that sugarcoats nothing but leaves the reader feeling that with love, anything is possible. Id love to see a five years later sequel, bringing us up to date on these fascinating women. Becky Thacker, Amazon Girls Handbook, Wicker Park Press, 2002 Faithful Unto Death, University of Michigan Press, Fall 2010 I was much impressed by the diversity of Relationships described in Leila Peters book. The themes of Honesty, Struggle, and Success are compelling. Its power lies in the telling of real life stories of Women fighting for love. Joseffa Crowe Storyteller, author of Growing Up Under the Swastika.
Author: Kristen Jane Anderson Publisher: National Geographic Books ISBN: 1601423829 Category : Young Adult Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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She wanted to die. God had other plans. Overwhelmed by wave after wave of emotional trauma, Kristen Anderson no longer wanted to live. One January night, determined to end her pain once and for all, the seventeen-year-old lay across train tracks not far from her home and waited to die. Instead of peace, she found herself immersed in a whole new nightmare. Before the engineer could bring the train to a stop, thirty-three freight cars passed over her at fifty-five miles per hour. After the train stopped and Kristen realized she was still alive, she looked around—and saw her legs ten feet away. Surviving her suicide attempt but losing her legs launched Kristen into an even deeper battle with depression and suicidal thoughts, as well as unrelenting physical pain—all from the seat of a wheelchair. But in the midst of her darkest days, Kristen discovered the way to real life and a purpose for living. For anyone struggling to find the strength to go on, the message of this heart-wrenching yet hope-building book is a clear and extraordinary reminder that even when we give up on life, God doesn’t give up on us. Includes notes of encouragement from Kristen and resources for suicide prevention.
Author: Georges Didi-Huberman Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226148165 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 250
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Of one and a half million surviving photographs related to Nazi concentration camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers. Images in Spite of All reveals that these rare photos of Auschwitz, taken clandestinely by one of the Jewish prisoners forced to help carry out the atrocities there, were made as a potent act of resistance. Available today because they were smuggled out of the camp and into the hands of Polish resistance fighters, the photographs show a group of naked women being herded into the gas chambers and the cremation of corpses that have just been pulled out. Georges Didi-Huberman’s relentless consideration of these harrowing scenes demonstrates how Holocaust testimony can shift from texts and imaginations to irrefutable images that attempt to speak the unspeakable. Including a powerful response to those who have criticized his interest in these images as voyeuristic, Didi-Huberman’s eloquent reflections constitute an invaluable contribution to debates over the representability of the Holocaust and the status of archival photographs in an image-saturated world.
Author: Dr. Viktor E Frankl Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0525567046 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 338
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Newly reissued in trade paperback, from the author of the bestselling Man's Search for Meaning--the classic book in which he first laid out his revolutionary theory of logotherapy. Dr. Viktor E. Frankl is celebrated as the founder of logotherapy, a revolutionary mode of psychotherapy based on the essential human need to search for meaning in life. Even while suffering the degradation and misery of Nazi concentration camps--an experience he described in his bestselling memoir, Man's Search for Meaning--Frankl retained his belief that the most important freedom is the ability to determine one's spiritual well-being. After his liberation, he published The Doctor and the Soul, the first book in which he explained his method and his conviction that the fundamental human motivation is neither sex (as in Freud) nor the need to be appreciated by society (as in Adler), but the desire to live a purposeful life. Frankl's work represented a major contribution to the field of psychotherapy, and The Doctor and the Soul is essential to understanding it.
Author: Vaddey Ratner Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1849837619 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 436
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A stunning, powerful debut novel set against the backdrop of the Cambodian War, perfect for fans of Chris Cleave and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie For seven-year-old Raami, the shattering end of childhood begins with the footsteps of her father returning home in the early dawn hours bringing details of the civil war that has overwhelmed the streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital. Soon the family's world of carefully guarded royal privilege is swept up in the chaos of revolution and forced exodus. Over the next four years, as she endures the deaths of family members, starvation, and brutal forced labour, Raami clings to the only remaining vestige of childhood - the mythical legends and poems told to her by her father. In a climate of systematic violence where memory is sickness and justification for execution, Raami fights for her improbable survival. Displaying the author's extraordinary gift for language, In the Shadow of the Banyanis testament to the transcendent power of narrative and a brilliantly wrought tale of human resilience. 'In the Shadow of the Banyanis one of the most extraordinary and beautiful acts of storytelling I have ever encountered' Chris Cleave, author of The Other Hand 'Ratner is a fearless writer, and the novel explores important themes such as power, the relationship between love and guilt, and class. Most remarkably, it depicts the lives of characters forced to live in extreme circumstances, and investigates how that changes them. To read In the Shadow of the Banyan is to be left with a profound sense of being witness to a tragedy of history' Guardian 'This is an extraordinary debut … as beautiful as it is heartbreaking' Mail on Sunday
Author: Adam Ruben Publisher: Crown ISBN: 0307589455 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 194
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This is a book for dedicated academics who consider spending years masochistically overworked and underappreciated as a laudable goal. They lead the lives of the impoverished, grade the exams of whiny undergrads, and spend lonely nights in the library or laboratory pursuing a transcendent truth that only six or seven people will ever care about. These suffering, unshaven sad sacks are grad students, and their salvation has arrived in this witty look at the low points of grad school. Inside, you’ll find: • advice on maintaining a veneer of productivity in front of your advisor • tips for sleeping upright during boring seminars • a description of how to find which departmental events have the best unguarded free food • how you can convincingly fudge data and feign progress This hilarious guide to surviving and thriving as the lowliest of life-forms—the grad student—will elaborate on all of these issues and more.
Author: Bob Vereen
Author: Bob Vereen
Author: Viktor E. Frankl
Author: Susan Gregory Thomas
Author: Ken Keyes
Author: Leila Peters
Author: Kristen Jane Anderson
Author: Georges Didi-Huberman
Author: Dr. Viktor E Frankl
Author: Vaddey Ratner
Author: Adam Ruben