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The twelve stories in this book, taken from Shaun Tomson's own life experiences in and out of the surfing world, offer the simple message "I will" as a model to face life's challenges and help you achieve your goals. All you need is to be encouraged to find your voice and commit yourself to positive values. The stories resonate
with positivity and hope for the future, and are infused with the belief that even in the darkest time, light shines ahead to show you the way forward.
Shaun Tomson's impossibly handsome visage has long ago been carved deeply into the pantheon of surfing's elite. He need do nothing more than continue to surf Rincon well and make a few aloha-shirted public appearances now and then to stride off gloriously into surfing immortality. But in recent years, at least partially brought on by the devastating loss of his teenaged son Mathew, Tomson has waded into the world of inspirational writing and speaking, endeavoring to pass on the lessons he's learned from a life extraordinarily well-lived.
These stories will inspire you to believe in yourself and to believe in the power that each and every one of us has to shape our lives through the power of “I Will.”
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Natural Theology - Five Views
James K., Jr. Dew, Ronnie P Jr Campbell; Contributions by John McDowell, Alister McGrath, Paul Moser, …
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Eloise Collection (DVD)
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Six instalments of the animated adaptations of the children's
stories by Kay Thompson. Featuring the voice talents of Mary
Mouser, Tim Curry and Neil Patrick Harris, the most imaginative
six-year-old goes on a variety of adventures including her first
day at school, an unconventional Halloween and a trip to Hollywood.
The episodes are: 'Me, Eloise', 'Little Miss Christmas', 'Eloise
Goes to School', 'Eloise in Hollywood', 'Eloise's Rawther Unusual
Halloween' and 'Eloise in Springtime'.
The complete second season of the US drama following medical
examiner Dr. Megan Hunt (Dana Delany) as she attempts to balance
her demanding job with her private life. In this series, Megan's
unique methods cause problems in the workplace and her already
tense relationship with her boss Kate Murphy (Jeri Ryan) worsens.
Meanwhile, Megan continues to build bridges with daughter Lacey
(Mary Mouser) and starts dating attractive FBI agent Derek Ames
(Cliff Curtis). The episodes comprise: 'Love Thy Neighbour',
'Hunting Party', 'Missing', 'Lazarus Man', 'Point of Origin',
'Second Chances', 'Hard Knocks', 'Love Bites', 'Gross Anatomy',
'Your Number's Up', 'Falling for You', 'Shades of Blue', 'Sympathy
for the Devil', 'Cold Blooded', 'Occupational Hazards', 'Home
Invasion', 'Identity', 'Going Viral: Part One', 'Going Viral: Part
Two' and 'Mind Games'.
This book explores the complex interactions between debt and
austerity, analysing the social, economic, and legal implications
of governments’ responses to the 2008 financial crisis. Â
Demonstrating how the nature of debt for those on low incomes has
changed radically over the last decade, the chapters provide
insight into how structural inequality was exacerbated by changes
in the redistributive state, the legal system, and the welfare
system. The examination occurs on a number of levels and these
issues are explored through the lens of power, place, and class.
The authors utilize both international case studies and 'on the
ground' experiences, reviewing the role of high cost credit,
bailiffs, local governments, bankruptcy, and debt advice. Through
the analysis of the nature and structure of debt in specific
countries, it highlights important lessons for a global audience.
 This unique book offers a broad, multi-faceted insight into
the issue of low-income debt which will greatly benefit academics
in law, social policy, geography, and economics. Its focus on
practical steps and potential reforms, as well as contributions
from third sector organizations, will also interest practitioners,
policymakers, and NGOs.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Arriving as a young writer in an ancient Dutch town, Benjamin Moser
found himself visiting—casually at first, and then more and more
obsessively—the country’s great museums. Inside these old
buildings, he discovered the remains of the Dutch Golden Age and
began to unearth the strange, inspiring, and terrifying stories of
the artists who gave shape to one of the most luminous moments in
the history of human creativity. Beyond the sainted Rembrandt—who
harbored a startling darkness—and the mysterious Vermeer, whose
true subject, it turned out, was lurking in plain sight, Moser got
to know a whole galaxy of geniuses: the doomed virtuoso Carel
Fabritius, the anguished wunderkind Jan Lievens, the deaf prodigy
Hendrik Avercamp. And through their artwork, he got to know their
country, too: from the translucent churches of Pieter Saenredam to
Paulus Potter’s muddy barnyards, and from Pieter de Hooch’s
cozy hearths to Jacob van Ruisdael’s tragic trees. Year after
year, as he tried to make a life for himself in the Netherlands,
Moser found friends among these centuries-dead artists. And he
found that they, too, were struggling with the same questions that
he was. Why do we make art? What even is art, anyway—and what is
an artist? What does it mean to succeed as an artist, and what does
it mean to fail? Is art a consolation—or a mortal danger? The
Upside-Down World is an invitation to ask these questions, and to
turn them on their heads: to look, and then to look again. This is
Holland and its great artists as we’ve never seen them before.
And it’s a sumptuously illustrated, highly personal
coming-of-age-story, twenty years in the making: a revealing
self-portrait by one of the most acclaimed writers of his
generation.
The inspirational ideas of Advocate General Francis Jacobs have
been drawn together here for the first time in one volume. Fifteen
leading EU law practitioners and academics have contributed,
including both Sir Francis's predecessor and his successor,
covering topics of current discussion in this continually evolving
field. Each contributor deals with a discrete topic of EU law and
discusses its evolution to date, its current state and its future
development, always with specific reference to Sir Francis's
opinions. Covering a diverse range of EU law topics, this book will
be of great interest to anyone seeking a greater insight into the
workings of the European Court of Justice and the role of the
Advocate General, and also for anyone involved in the academic
study of EU law or practising and litigating in the field. Making
Community Law should provide a rich treasury of ideas, explaining
both the current state of EU jurisprudence as well as considering
the next steps in the making of EU law.
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Agua Viva (Paperback)
Clarice Lispector; Translated by Stefan Tobler; Preface by Benjamin Moser
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A meditation on the nature of life and time, Agua Viva (1973) shows
Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more
deeply transforming her individual experience into a universal
poetry. In a body of work as emotionally powerful, formally
innovative, and philosophically profound as Clarice Lispector s,
Agua Viva stands out as a particular triumph."
A book that dispels the myths about those who prefer to go beyond
vanilla sex Sadomasochism: Powerful Pleasures is a comprehensive
exploration of the entire sexual subculture that lies on the
cutting edge of society. The mental health professions and society
have marginalized people who practice sadomasochism (SM).This
interdisciplinary collection dispels myths surrounding SM, bringing
together leading scholars from the fields of sexology, psychology,
sociology, and medicine, alongside queer studies and sexual
minority advocacy. Experts such as Thomas S. Weinberg, PhD, Susan
Wright, MA, Margaret Nichols, PhD, Odd Reiersol, PhD, Svein Skeid,
Rebecca F. Plante, PhD, Niklas Nordling, MPsych, and N. Kenneth
Sandnabba, PhD, among other stellar authorities, reveal research
findings, clinical data, and critical thinking about sexuality that
lies beyond vanilla. To gain a broader understanding of human
sexuality, the study of SM is crucial for what it reveals about us
as sexual beings. The text discusses the results of research into
practitioners' behaviors and perspectives, the prevalence of SM
behaviors in today's culture, and stresses the need for greater
tolerance and understanding. The realization of SM desires and
their acceptance are explored in detail. This unflinching look at
the world and the people of SM will guide scholars and lay people
alike into a more sensitive, sex-friendly viewpoint of the people
society calls kinky. Sadomasochism: Powerful Pleasures answers
questions such as: What is the nature of SM relationships? What are
the values and motives of SM participants? How do mental health
professionals regard and treat SM practitioners? Should
sadomasochism continue to be classified as a mental illness? What
is the legal status of SM and what are the consequences of
discrimination against SM practitioners? Does increasing visibility
of SM imagery decrease stigma or create added problems? What can
ordinary lovers learn from those we have marginalized about the
farther reaches of human erotic potential? Sadomasochism: Powerful
Pleasures is valuable, insightful reading for mental health
professionals, students, sex educators, sex counselors, sex
therapists, sex researchers, sexual health workers, sociologists,
sexual minority groups, and anyone interested in learning more
about the sexual pleasures that lie beyond the traditional.
A hallmark of much of the research on children's thinking in the
1970s had been the focus on explicit content domains. Much of this
research had been represented by an eclectic collection of studies
sampled from a variety of disciplines and content areas. However,
in the few years before this publication, research in several
content domains has begun to coalesce into a coherent body of
knowledge. Originally published in 1982, the chapters in this work
represent one of the first attempts to bring together the
perspectives of a variety of different researchers investigating a
specific, well defined content domain. This book presents
theoretical views and research findings of a group of international
scholars who are investigating the early acquisition of addition
and subtraction skills by young children. Together, the
contributors bring a blend of psychology, educational psychology,
and mathematics education to this topic. Fields of interest such as
information processing, artificial intelligence, early childhood,
and classroom teaching and learning are included in this blend.
Recent years have seen an explosion of new mathematical results on
learning and processing in neural networks. This body of results
rests on a breadth of mathematical background which even few
specialists possess. In a format intermediate between a textbook
and a collection of research articles, this book has been assembled
to present a sample of these results, and to fill in the necessary
background, in such areas as computability theory, computational
complexity theory, the theory of analog computation, stochastic
processes, dynamical systems, control theory, time-series analysis,
Bayesian analysis, regularization theory, information theory,
computational learning theory, and mathematical statistics.
Mathematical models of neural networks display an amazing richness
and diversity. Neural networks can be formally modeled as
computational systems, as physical or dynamical systems, and as
statistical analyzers. Within each of these three broad
perspectives, there are a number of particular approaches. For each
of 16 particular mathematical perspectives on neural networks, the
contributing authors provide introductions to the background
mathematics, and address questions such as:
* Exactly what mathematical systems are used to model neural
networks from the given perspective?
* What formal questions about neural networks can then be
addressed?
* What are typical results that can be obtained? and
* What are the outstanding open problems?
A distinctive feature of this volume is that for each perspective
presented in one of the contributed chapters, the first editor has
provided a moderately detailed summary of the formal results and
the requisite mathematical concepts. These summaries are presented
in four chapters that tie together the 16 contributed chapters:
three develop a coherent view of the three general perspectives --
computational, dynamical, and statistical; the other assembles
these three perspectives into a unified overview of the neural
networks field.
The result of the 1993 Connectionist Models Summer School, the
papers in this volume exemplify the tremendous breadth and depth of
research underway in the field of neural networks. Although the
slant of the summer school has always leaned toward cognitive
science and artificial intelligence, the diverse scientific
backgrounds and research interests of accepted students and invited
faculty reflect the broad spectrum of areas contributing to neural
networks, including artificial intelligence, cognitive science,
computer science, engineering, mathematics, neuroscience, and
physics. Providing an accurate picture of the state of the art in
this fast-moving field, the proceedings of this intense two-week
program of lectures, workshops, and informal discussions contains
timely and high-quality work by the best and the brightest in the
neural networks field.
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The Imitation of the Rose (Hardcover)
Clarice Lispector; Translated by Katrina Dodson; Edited by Benjamin Moser
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Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short
stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers,
designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Thirteen short
tales from one of the most blistering and innovative writers of the
twentieth century. The small incidents of life become moments of
inner revelation in the luminous writing of Clarice Lispector. A
woman contemplating a vase of roses after a nervous breakdown; a
tangled mother-daughter relationship; a man's abandonment of a dog;
an animal in a zoo: each one leads to mystery and self-discovery,
delight and devastation.
This book delves into the ethical dimension of urban life: how
should one live in the city? What constitutes a 'good' life under
urban condition? Whose gets to live a 'good' life, and whose ideas
of morality, propriety and 'good' prevail? What is the connection
between the 'good' and the 'just' in urban life? Rather than
philosophizing the 'good' and proper life in cities, the book
considers what happens when urban conflicts and urban futures are
carried out as conflicts over the good and proper life in cities.
It offers an understanding of how ethical discourses, ideals and
values are harmonized with material interests of different groups,
taking up cases studies about environmental protection, co-housing
schemes, political protest, heritage preservation, participatory
planning, collaborative art production, and other topics from
different eras and parts of the globe. This book offers
multidisciplinary insights, ethnographic research and conceptual
tools and resources to explore and better understand such
conflicts. It questions the ways in which urban ethics draw on
tacit moral economies of urban life and the ways in which such
moral economies become explicit, political and programmatic. The
Open Access version of Chapter 11 in this book, available at
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429322310, has been made available
under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives
4.0 license.
"That woman who killed the fish unfortunately is me," begins the
title story, but "if it were my fault, I'd own up to you, since I
don't lie to boys and girls. I only lie sometimes to a certain type
of grownup because there's no other way." Enumerating all the
animals she's loved-cats, dogs, lizards, chickens, monkeys-Clarice
finally asks: "Do you forgive me?" "The Mystery of the Thinking
Rabbit" is a detective story which explains that bunnies think with
their noses: for a single idea a bunny might "scrunch up his nose
fifteen thousand times" (he may not be too bright, but "he's not
foolish at all when it comes to making babies"). The third tale,
"Almost True," is a shaggy dog yarn narrated by a pooch who is very
worried about a wicked witch: "I am a dog named Ulisses and my
owner is Clarice." The wonderful last story, "Laura's Intimate
Life" stars "the nicest hen I've ever seen." Laura is "quite dumb,"
but she has her "little thoughts and feelings. Not a lot, but she's
definitely got them. Just knowing she's not completely dumb makes
her feel all chatty and giddy. She thinks that she thinks." A
one-eyed visitor from Jupiter arrives and vows Laura will never be
eaten: she's been worrying, because "humans are a weird sort of
person" who can love hens and eat them, too. Such throwaway wisdom
abounds: "Don't even get me started." These delightful,
high-hearted stories, written for her own boys, have charm to
burn-and are a treat for every Lispector reader.
Lori, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous,
comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. When she
meets Ulisses, a professor of philosophy, an opportunity opens: a
chance to escape the shipwreck of introspection and embrace the
love, including the sexual love, of a man. Her attempt, as Sheila
Heti writes in her afterword, is not only "to love and to be
loved," but also "to be worthy of life itself." Published in 1968,
An Apprenticeship is Clarice Lispector's attempt to reinvent
herself following the exhausting effort of her metaphysical
masterpiece The Passion According to G. H. Here, in this
unconventional love story, she explores the ways in which people
try to bridge the gaps between them, and the result, unusual in her
work, surprised many readers and became a bestseller. Some
appreciated its accessibility; others denounced it as sexist or
superficial. To both admirers and critics, the olympian Clarice
gave a typically elliptical answer: "I humanized myself," she said.
"The book reflects that."
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