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Many people often wish they could start over and begin a new
career, but think they don't have the time, opportunity, or the
courage to do so. Michael Lyons not only takes us along his journey
of change, but shares some of the techniques and skills that proved
valuable in pursuing his dream of becoming a chef. By employing
industry-tested techniques he learned as a professional "Big Six"
consultant, Michael was able to chase his dream in a calculated and
methodical way. But make no mistake. Change is not easy and
obstacles occur along the way, testing our resolve and
determination. But for Michael, and for many of us, the end result
of such personal journeys is satisfaction and achievements beyond
our own expectations. Whether you've always wondered what life is
like as a chef, or you're just interested in knowing what it takes
to make a life change and succeed, "A Cook at Heart" provides a
fun, humorous and insightful look into personal transformation.
Is there a game going on in heaven, and are we victims of a great
conspiracy created by "The Gods?" Has the game in heavenly congress
turned into war, and are we feeling the effects of it here on
earth? Are we unknowingly being manipulated? Was the "Bible"
written by "The Gods" as a mystery to dupe religious mankind? What
are the rules of the game, the main plot, the team players and the
stratagems?In this book Michele Lyon reveals how the Mystery works;
its sub-plots, hidden messages and clues held within its pages, and
are now being revealed. A revealing of a lie so perverse and so
abstract that it required letting go of all the old ideas and
concepts to see it. She exposes what has been going on the last one
hundred years that no-one has identified!This is a book of human
failings and deceptions and the whispers that have been passed down
through time that only now can be interpreted.The cover chess
pieces: On the left side--Hitler, Usama Bin Laden and Stalin. On
the right side--Jesus, Joan of Arc, Gandhi and Bill W. (co-founder
of Alcoholics Anonymous).
Felix Mitterer's reputation as a European dramatist of the first
rank is by now firmly established. With his gift for sketching
social milieu in a few salient strokes and creating almost
unbearably intense moments of dramatic suspense, he has for over
thirty years been riveting the attention of viewers on the
suffering of such oppressed groups as the aged (Siberia), the
mentally challenged (No Room for Idiots) and the workingmen and
women in thrall to corrupt corporations (One Everyman). The two
plays offered here, In the Lions' Den and The Panther, fall well
within the purview of Mitterer's social concerns, portraying as
they do, respectively, the plight of the Jews in the Third Reich
and, once again, the aged in contemporary society. Yet they also
reveal a deeper and more personal thematic vein having to do with
the intimate symbiosis of language and individual identity. In
Lions' Den the Jewish protagonist Kirsch affects Tyrolean dialect
to create an Aryan persona for survival purposes, in effect
corroborating the idealist doctrine, esse est percipi (to be is to
be perceived, as this or that). You are what you can persuade
others you are, and God help you if your powers of persuasion fail
you! In The Panther the old man's self-image, his very sense of
himself, erodes with the chipping-away of age at his memory of the
lines that make up Rilke's immortal Dinggedicht. In both plays the
bedrock ordering of experience imposed by language is strained to
the breaking point, leaving the protagonists teetering on the brink
of the abyss that looms just beyond personal identity. Of his own
life the self-effacing Felix Mitterer has said: "Its only unusual
aspect is that I became a writer, that I was saved and others
weren't". His words allude obliquely to the grinding poverty and
backbreaking work he had to endure labouring on the farms of the
Tyrol as he grew up. They also convey his solidarity with those
"others" who could not make it out of the Alpine ghetto and suggest
his deep commitment to make their plight, and that of other
oppressed groups, the driving force of his dramatic art. Felix
Mitterer has done what all true artists do, transformed his
personal demons into angels of art. And in tracing, through that
art, the correspondence between his own demons and those of
society, he masters them, not only in himself but in the receptive
viewer (or reader) as well.
IN 12 YEARS, MICHELLE LYONS WITNESSED NEARLY 300 EXECUTIONS. As a
reporter and then spokesperson for the Texas Department of Criminal
Justice, Michelle was a frequent visitor to Huntsville's Walls
Unit, where she recorded the final moments of death row inmates'
lives before they were put to death by the state. Michelle
witnessed some of the most notorious criminals, including serial
killers, child murderers and rapists, speak their last words on
earth, while a cocktail of lethal drugs surged through their veins.
Misgivings began to set in as the execution numbers mounted. She
came to know and like some of the condemned people she saw die, and
began to query the seemingly arbitrary nature of the death penalty.
Do executions actually make victims of us all? 'Haunting, dark and
hard to put down' Houston Chronicle 'A portrait of what it's like
to be surrounded by death... a memoir of perseverance in the face
of routine tragedy' The Daily Beast
The United States introduced the earned income tax credit (EITC) in
1975, where it remains the most significant earnings-based
refundable credit in the Internal Revenue Code. While the United
States was the first country to use its domestic revenue system to
deliver and administer social welfare benefits to lower-income
individuals or families, a number of other countries, including New
Zealand and Canada, have experimented with or incorporated similar
credits into their tax systems. In this work, Michelle Lyon Drumbl,
drawing on her extensive advocacy experience representing
low-income taxpayers in EITC audits, analyzes the effectiveness of
the EITC in the United States and offers suggestions for how it can
be improved. This timely book should be read by anyone interested
in how the EITC can be reimagined to better serve the working poor
and, more generally, whether the tax system can promote social
justice.
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Feelings (Paperback)
Michael Lyons; Illustrated by Michael Lyons
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Grief Relief (Paperback)
Michael Lyons; Michael Lyons
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Discovery Miles 2 360
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"Rockstar Cartoonist" follows the life of cartoonist, Michael Lyons
and his struggles as an aspiring artist and musician. Beginning in
1967, when we witness the birth of Lyons as the reincarnation of
Michelangelo, the reader follows his experiences (especially
regarding: dating, drawing, and playing guitar) as he progresses
throughout the decades. In the end, we discover Michael as a
middle-aged man with ambivalent feelings about love, music and
cartoons.
"Amix Blood" is the story of a bi-racial girl with a unique set of
problems. She is half elfin and half vampire. When Amix is asked to
leave the prestigious vampire academy, she enrolls in a boarding
school dedicated to assimilating elves into the dominant vampire
culture. After attempting a daring mid-day escape, Amix meets a
kindred spirit in Steven. Steven is also of mixed-heritage. He is
half human and half alien. Together, they resist the terrible
elf-hunter, Santa Claus, and try to get back home.
"Meditation, Depression and an Alien Encounter" follows a
conversation about depression and meditation between cartoonist,
Michael Lyons and an alien named, Steven.
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