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Stage Fright: 40 Stars Tell You How They Beat America's #1 Fear - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Never before has the problem of stage fright been so eloquently examined; 40 interviews with some of the most highly-accomplished public figures shed light on this affliction, offering tips from their own experiences for overcoming it. Jason Alexander, Mose Allison, Maya Angelou, David Brenner, Peter Coyote, Olympia Dukakis, Richard Lewis, and many more sound off about their trials with stage fright, candidly discussing their fears and insecurities with life in the public eye and ultimately revealing the various paths they followed to overcoming them. Stage fright sufferers from all walks of life—whether a high school freshman nervous about an oral presentation or a professional baseball player with the eyes of the world on his bat—will find consolation by understanding the commonality of their problem, as well as helpful information to finally shed their inhibitions.
Millionaire Teacher: The Nine Rules of Wealth You Should Have Learned in School - Original PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: The incredible story of how a schoolteacher built a million-dollar portfolio, and how you can too Most people wouldn't expect a schoolteacher to amass a million-dollar investment account. But Andrew Hallam did so, long before the typical retirement age. And now, with Millionaire Teacher, he wants to show you how to follow in his footsteps. With lively humor and the simple clarity you'd expect from a gifted educator, Hallam demonstrates how average people can build wealth in the stock market by shunning the investment products peddled by most financial advisors and avoiding the get-rich-quicker products concocted by an ever widening, self-serving industry.Using low cost index funds, coupled with a philosophy in line with the one that made Warren Buffett a multi-billionaire, Hallam guides readers to understand how the stock and bond markets really work, arming you with a psychological advantage when markets fall.Shows why young investors should hope for stock market crashes if they want to get richExplains how you can spend just 60 minutes a year on your investments, never open a financial paper, avoid investment news, and still leave most professional investors in the dustPromotes a unique new investment methodology that combines low cost index funds and a Warren Buffett-esque investment philosophyMillionaire Teacher explains how anyone can learn the ABCs of personal finance and strengthen their financial position.
Would you convict?: seventeen cases that challenged the law - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: A police trooper inspects a car during a routine traffic stop and finds a vast cache of weapons, complete with automatic rifles, thousands of rounds of ammunition, and black ski masks-a veritable bank robber's kit. Should the men in the car be charged? If so, with what? A son neglects to care for his elderly mother, whose emaciated form is discovered shortly before she dies a painful death. Is the son's neglect punishable, and if so how? A career con man writes one bad check too many and is sentenced to life in prison-for a check in the amount of $129.75. Is this just? A thief steals a backpack, only to find it contains a terrorist bomb. He alerts the police and saves lives, transforming himself from petty criminal to national hero. These are just a few of the many provocative cases that Paul Robinson presents and unravels in Would You Convict? Judging crimes and meting out punishment has long been an informal national pasttime. High-profile crimes or particularly brutal ones invariably prompt endless debate, in newspapers, on television, in coffee shops, and on front porches. Our very nature inclines us to be armchair judges, freely waving our metaphorical gavels and opining as to the innocence or guilt-and suitable punishment-of alleged criminals. Confronting this impulse, Paul Robinson here presents a series of unusual episodes that not only challenged the law, but that defy a facile or knee-jerk verdict. Narrating the facts in compelling, but detached detail, Robinson invites readers to sentence the transgressor (or not), before revealing the final outcome of the case. The cases described in Would You Convict? engage, shock, even repel. Without a doubt, they will challenge you and your belief system. And the way in which juries and judges have resolved them will almost certainly surprise you.
Persons — What Philosophers Say about You: 2nd edition - Original PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Can a person suffer radical change and still be the same person? Are there human beings who are not persons at all? Western philosophers, from the ancient Greeks to contemporary thinkers, gave the concept of “person” great importance in their discussions. They saw it as crucial to our understanding of our world and our place in it. Prompted by tragedy — a loved one’s descent into dementia — Warren Bourgeois explored Western philosophical ideas to discover what constitutes a “person.” The first edition of Persons — What Philosophers Say About You was the result of his search. This new second edition focuses on making this material easily available and accessible to students, and has been redesigned as an introduction to the philosophy of mind and its history, concentrating on the central concept of “person” in contemporary controversies concerning abortion, euthanasia, genetic engineering, and human rights. Bourgeois has mined Western philosophy for ideas students can apply today as technology challenges their beliefs about what we are. He then uses the concept of person to unite the various subdivisions of philosophy, applying theories of knowledge, reality and value to help students understand what we believe about ourselves. The result is a living philosophy and an “introductory text with a difference.” While the ideas of the great philosophers cannot be meaningfully summarized in one introductory text, this book provides a comparison of what many of them say about the concept of person, and will encourage students to read further.
The Five-Year Party: How Colleges Have Given Up on Educating Your Child and What You Can Do About It - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: ForeWord Book of the Year Award winner "The Five-Year Party provides the most vivid portrait of college life since Tom Wolfe's 2004 novel, I Am Charlotte Simmons. The difference is that it isn't fiction. The alcohol-soaked, sex-saturated, drug-infested campuses that Mr. Brandon writes about are real. His book is a roadmap for parents on how to steer clear of the worst of them . The Five-Year Party is a useful handbook for parents to pack when they take their teenager on a college tour, and its list of suggested questions is smart. My favorite: How many of the school's professors send their own children there?” The Wall Street Journal High costs and debt, insufficient instruction, dangerous campuses, and poor job prospects: for too many students, a five-year college party often turns into a lifelong nightmare. The Five-Year Party is packed with illuminating stories and details about this crisis situation, and helps readers to avoid the dangers and get the most for their money.” Marc Scheer, author, No Sucker Left Behind: Avoiding the Great College Rip-Off "In one dismaying and maddening episode and circumstance after another, Craig Brandon's survey of college campuses sounds a vital warning for parents: 'The institutions and administrators you trust to foster and guide your children's formation are more interested in their pocketbooks than their intellects. Buyer beware!'" Mark Bauerlein, author of The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future After reading only a few pages of The Five-Year Party, I immediately started telling people about its important message. This crucial book exposes the consumer mentality now all too prevalent on college campuses, detailing how higher education has given students what they want at the expense of giving them what they need to compete in the global marketplace. Even better, the book tells parents and educators how this nefarious trend can be circumvented. Any parent who wants their college-bound teen to actually learn something for their heaps of tuition money should read this book.” Jean M. Twenge, author of Generation Me and co-author of The Narcissism Epidemic "With broad, unforgiving strokes, Craig Brandon paints a dark picture of residential college life that will give every parent pause before sending a child off to any of his 'Party Schools.'" Barrett Seaman, author of Binge: Campus Life in an Age of Disconnection and Excess Colleges look much the same as they did five or ten years ago, but a lot has changed behind the scenes. While some mixture of study and play has always been part of college life, an increasing number of schools have completely abandoned the idea that students need to learn or demonstrate that they've learned. Financial pressures have made college administrations increasingly reluctant to flunk anyone out, regardless of performance, although the average length of time to get a degree is now five years, and for many students it's six or more. Student evaluations of professorsoften linked to promotion and tenure decisionshave made professors realize that applying tough standards, or any standards, only hurts their own career progress. For many professors, it's become easier and more rewarding to focus on giving entertaining lectures and to give everyone reasonably good grades. The worst of these schools are the "subprime" colleges, where performance standards and accountability have been completely abandoned. Students enjoy a five year party with minimal responsibilities while their parents pay the bills. These schools' investment decisions (first-class gyms and dining centers) are all geared to attracting students that want to have a good time, and their brochures all emphasize the fun aspects of the college experiencethere are very few pictures of students actually studying or in class. And after graduation, former students are frequently unable to find work in their chosen fields, thanks to their school’s reputation with employers, and unable to afford the payments on sizable student loans. The subprime colleges, which "teach" a significant percentage of college students, are only the tip of the iceberg. All colleges, even the most elite, have moved in this direction to some extent. If you are a parent sending your child to college, "The Five-Year Party" will give you critical information you need about what is really happening at your child's college, and what you can do to ensure help your child gets a real education.
So You Want to Use Role Play?: A New Approach in How to Plan - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: This book has two kinds of readers in mind. Those of you whowould like to try using role-play with your group, but don’tknow where or how to start. Those of you who, having triedit, now want to extend its scope and are ready to rethink itsprinciples. Whether you are working in the caring professions,commerce, industry or education we hope these pages will offer younew ideas and a new way of looking at what it means to learnsomething through role work.The book is full of examples of practice, but because we do not havea particular kind of group or learning context in mind, you shouldtake our examples as representing a kind of role-play. We are notsaying ‘You should do this particular exercise’, but rather, ‘This kindof role-play may be suitable for what you are doing’, leaving you tochoose the subject-matter. So our chosen themes or topics arearbitrary. For instance, the first chapter offers a wide range ofexamples on Road Safety with young children. We are not settingout to appeal to teachers who happen to want to cover the subject ofRoad Safety with young children; we are using it to illustrateunderlying principles of role-play that we hope are transferable toany topic you and your group are exploring.Similarly we see our range of exercises relating to the theme of‘disloyalty’ with adolescents, the training of apprentice gas-fitters inhow to approach customers, the testing of managers in team respon-sibility and the medical students’ initiation into visualising the dailyresponsibilities of the doctor they may one day become, as illus-trative of principles applicable to a myriad of contexts.But this book attempts to do more than outline the rules of role-play.Its authors have a mission! We are attempting to break what we seeas the ‘moulds’ of role-play practice. Publications on the subjectviiseem to follow one (or both) of two traditions. There is the‘simulation’ tradition in which a ‘real-life’ work problem isreplicated and the participants engage in solving it. Derived fromthis are a number of exercises set up to isolate for subsequentexamination a particular deficiency in interpersonal communica-tion. The learning outcome is to do with procedures and theeffectiveness of individuals to follow them. The second tradition hasa ‘counselling’ basis. In these the emphasis is on sensitivity ingroups and the honest facing up to one’s behaviour in stressful worksituations. You will find that most recommended role-play practicederives from one or other of these traditions. Much of it is based onsound principles and planning. And yet anecdotal recollections ofpast role-play experiences often dismiss the work as a waste of timeand/or a dreaded embarrassment
Finding You Finding Me: Using Intensive Interaction To Get In Touch With People Whose Severe Learning Disabilities Are Combined With Autistic Spectrum Disorder - Original PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: What is this book about?Finding You Finding Me is about some of the many people with whom I havebeen involved over the last 35 years, whose severe learning difficulties arelinked with autism. While the majority are adult, some are children.Without exception, all those mentioned are on the autistic spectrum.For those of us who are sometimes known as neurotypical (NT), wholive with and support people on the spectrum, there is almost always afeeling of separation. In some respects this can be enhanced by definitionswhich separate ‘us’ and ‘them’ into categories – when the aim of this bookis to show how we can share common ground. Nevertheless, ‘neurotypical’is a convenient shorthand which is offered by people with autism and so Ishall use it gratefully, while remembering that we have common purposewhich I shall try to unravel as we move on. I shall think of us as partnerswith common purpose and endeavour.How can we get in touch with each other? Where is the key to relation-ship in a partnership which will consist of one person who is known asautistic and the other who may be a parent, support partner, therapist,community worker, advocate, manager or simply someone who would liketo be a friend but is baffled by the communication gulf ? Since the twopartners live in different sensory worlds, none of these roles will help us tomeet unless we can find some way of getting close to each other which iscomfortable for both of us.
Dream When You're Feeling Blue - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: T WAS KITTY’S TURN TO SLEEP with her head at the foot of the bed. She didn’t mind; she preferred it, actually. She liked the mild disorientation that came from that position, and she liked the relative sense of privacy—her sisters’ feet in her face, yes, but not their eyes, not their ears, nor the close, damp sounds of their breathing. And at the foot of the bed she was safe from Louise, who often yanked mercilessly at people’s hair in her sleep. Tonight Kitty was last to bed, having been last in the bathroom. Everybody liked it when Kitty was last in the bathroom because, of the eight people living in the house, she always took the longest. Apart from the normal ablutions, she did things in there: affected poses she thought made her look even more like Rita Hayworth—she did look like Rita Hayworth, everyone said so. She filed her fingernails, she experimented with combining perfumes to make a new scent, she creamed her face, she used eyebrow pencil to make beauty marks above her lip. She also read magazines in the bathroom because there, no one read over her shoulder. Oh, somebody would bang on the door every time she was in there, somebody was always banging on the bathroom door, but a girl could get a lot done in a room with a locked door. Kitty could do more in five minutes in the bathroom than in thirty minutes anywhere else in the house, where everyone in the family felt it their right—their obligation!—to butt into everyone else’s business. When Kitty came out of the bathroom, she tiptoed into the bedroom, where it appeared her sisters were already asleep—Tish on her side with her knees drawn up tight, Louise with the covers flung off. Kitty crouched down by Louise and whispered her sister’s name. Kitty wanted to talk; she wasn’t ready to sleep yet. But Louise didn’t budge.
How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: This book is divided into four parts, starting with the basics and working through all aspects of Wikipedia.Part I looks at Wikipedia from the reader's point of view. Chapter 1, What's in Wikipedia? describes the type of contentWikipedia contains and the basic policies that determine what content is included. The site's history is explored in Chapter 2,The World Gets a Free Encyclopedia; in particular, we look at the way that Wikipedia unites three historical strands:encyclopedias, wikis, and free software. How to search and browse the site (including an explanation of the sidebar andmain page) is detailed in Chapter 3, Finding Wikipedia's Content, and Chapter 4, Understanding and Evaluating an Articlecovers the structure of an individual article and methods for evaluating article quality.Part II turns to editing the site. A basic explanation of how to edit a page and an introduction to wikisyntax are in Chapter 5,Basic Editing; this chapter forms the foundation for the next chapters in this part. Chapter 6, Good Writing and Researchcovers how to start a new article and explores encyclopedic writing, research, and collaboration techniques that are usefulfor working on any article. Formal processes for maintaining content, including collaborative editing drives and cleanupprojects, WikiProjects, and article deletion and promotion processes are covered in Chapter 7, Cleanup, Projects, andProcesses. Chapter 8, Make and Mend Wikipedia's Web explains how articles are linked together through Wikipedia'scategory structure, disambiguation pages, and redirects, along with how pages are maintained through merging, splitting,and moving. More advanced syntax, including image formatting, tables, templates, and special characters, is covered inChapter 9, Images, Templates, and Special Characters. Chapter 10, The Life Cycle of an Article steps through the life cycleof a newly created article.Part III covers Wikipedia's elaborate social side. We begin with how to sign up as an editor, including setting up an account,setting preferences, and using your personal user and talk pages in Chapter 11, Becoming a Wikipedian, in which we alsodescribe Wikipedia's administrator system. Wikipedia's culture and the ways editors communicate (including a list of forumsfor asking questions and discussing problems) are covered in Chapter 12, Community and Communication, and the policiesthat govern Wikipedia and how these policies are created are described in Chapter 13, Policy and Your Input. Finally,Chapter 14, Disputes, Blocks, and Bans discusses how the dispute resolution process works—and how to avoid disagreementin the first place.Part IV steps back from the English-language Wikipedia to cover other Wikimedia Foundation projects, including editionsof Wikipedia in other languages in Chapter 15, 200 Languages and Counting and Wikipedia's sister projects, includingWikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikispecies, and Wikiversity, inChapter 16, Wikimedia Commons and Other Sister Projects. Finally, we cover the Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia'sparent organization) and how work at the Foundation level is coordinated in Chapter 17, The Foundation and ProjectCoordinationآیا کتاب مورد نظر هنوز بر روی سایت قرار نگرفته است؟ جای نگرانی نیست! کافی است بر روی گزینه سفارش کتاب کلیک کرده و درخواست خود را ثبت کنید. در کمتر از چند ساعت کتاب شما را آماده خواهیم کرد.