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The Speechwriter brings you inside the spin room of the modern
politician in "a wry and eloquent memoir" (The Wall Street Journal)
that is "the best book about politics I've read in years" (GQ) and
"will become a classic" (The Washington Post). Everyone knows this
kind of politician: a charismatic maverick who goes up against the
system and its ways, but thinks he doesn't have to live by the
rules. Through his own experience as a speechwriter for a
controversial governor, Barton Swaim tells the story of a band of
believers who attach themselves to this sort of ambitious
narcissist-and what happens when it all comes crashing down. As The
Washington Post put it, "The Speechwriter feels like Veep meets All
the King's Men-an entertaining and engrossing book not just about
the absurdities of working in the press shop of a Southern governor
but also about the meaning of words in public life." Swaim paints a
portrait of a boss so principled he'd rather sweat than use state
money to pay for air conditioning, so oblivious he'd wear the same
stained shirt for two weeks, so egotistical he'd belittle his
staffers to make himself feel better, and so self-absorbed he never
once apologized to his staff for making his administration the
laughingstock of the country. On the surface, this is the story of
one politician's rise and fall. But in the end, it's a story about
us-the very real people who want to believe in our leaders and must
learn to survive with broken hearts. The Speechwriter is "a wryly
funny, beautifully written...dissection of what it is like to
perform a thankless job for an unreasonable person in a
dysfunctional office...A marvelously entertaining book. It's clear
[Swaim] spent a long time on it, because he's made it look so
effortless" (The New York Times).
An essential introduction to contemporary strategy at the
operational level of war, now in its second edition Military
Strategy, Joint Operations, and Airpower introduces contemporary
strategy at the operational level of war, particularly as it
relates to airpower. Developed as foundational reading for all US
Air Force Academy cadets, Air Force ROTC students, and Officer
Training School candidates, this intermediate textbook is designed
to close the gap between military theory and practice. It covers
strategic foundations; operational design and joint-service
operations; the air, space, and cyber capabilities that comprise
modern airpower; and contemporary challenges in the application of
strategy. In this second edition, each chapter has been updated and
revised, and several sections have been expanded. Part 2, "Military
Forces and the Joint Fight," now features separate chapters about
each service. Similarly, operational design is expanded from one to
four chapters to provide a more thorough step-by-step guide through
the process. New chapters in this second edition include
"Integrating the Instruments of Power," "The Spectrum of Conflict
and Range of Military Operations," and "The Nuclear Weapons Triad
and Missile Defense." Military Strategy, Joint Operations, and
Airpower's contributing authors and editors include both military
practitioners and scholars of security studies, political science,
and history. In addition to being required reading for US Air Force
cadets, the book provides an essential overview of strategy and
practice for anyone interested in modern airpower.
Fu Zhongwen's classic guide offers the best documentation available
of the Yang style of taijiquan. The superbly detailed form
instructions and historic line art drawings are based on Fu's many
years as a disciple of Yang Chengfu, taijiquan's legendary founder.
Also included are concise descriptions of fixed-step, moving-step,
and da lu push hands practices. Additional commentary by translator
Louis Swaim provides key insight into the text's philosophical
language and imagery, further elucidating the art's cultural and
historical foundations.
"What do John the Baptist and Winnie the Pooh have in common?"
"Where is Solomon's temple located?" These jokes and an array of
faith-based puzzles, brainsteasers, and word games are the creation
of Catholic puzzlemaster and popular media personality Matt Swaim.
Combining his wit and far-reaching knowledge of Catholicism into
these entertaining, original puzzle books for adults, Swaim gives
you a chance to slow down, test your brain, have fun, and increase
your understanding of Catholic teaching and history. Puzzles and
games of all kinds are becoming an increasingly popular way to
relax while building brain power and concentration. Catholic
Puzzles, Word Games, and Brainteasers: Volumes 1 and 2 are the
first of their kind for Catholics and a great way to have fun and
increase your knowledge of the Church at the same time. Swaim,
cocreator and former host of the Son Rise Morning Show, offers a
challenge for puzzlers of all skill levels and interests with code
scrambles, syllacrostics, dial-a-quotes, wordfalls, and messages in
the middle. He provides a twist on classic word games with the
missing vowels word search and trial-and-error crossword. There are
instructions and solutions for the various types of puzzles
included in the book. All of the puzzles offer the reward of
helping you learn more about your Catholic faith.
Following on from the first two books in his 'Genesis Trilogy',
Lawrence Swaim tells the amazing stories of people who broke the
trauma bond, and created new lives for themselves. Including, among
others: Norman Finkelstein (whose parents were both Holocaust
survivors) who broke free from the inter-generational trauma in his
family system by exposing extensive corruption in his
community--and in American society--and by working for social
justice in the Middle East; Eric Lomax, a former British soldier in
the far east, who broke free from his haunting traumatic memories
by meeting and reconciling with the Japanese man who had tortured
him fifty years before, with the help of his brave and insightful
wife; Gerry Adams who, together with his IRA and Sinn Fein
comrades, broke free of the trauma of Northern Ireland's civil war,
finally redeeming himself by questioning some of his own
assumptions and then dedicating himself to achieving peace in the
Good Friday (Peace) Agreement of 1998. This is a definitive book
about personal struggle against traumatic memory, but also about
how trauma bonding operates in society. It is the author's belief
that unresolved feelings of psychological trauma are the wheelhouse
of systemic evil, whether of the dictator, the demagogue or the
criminal psychopath. It is by manipulating shared traumatic
memories that tyrants control people, and get them to do terrible
things they would never otherwise do.
The publication in 1934 of Yang Chengfu's book, Essence and
Applications of Taijiquan (Taijiquan Tiyong Quanshu) marked a
milestone in the modern evolution of the art of taijiquan. Using
what is best-termed demonstration narrative, the author presents
form postures and suggested applications from his own perspective,
as he performed them. This methodology renders Yang Chengfu's
direct, hands-on teaching of the art with such immediacy and
liveliness that the reader experiences the master's teaching much
as his students did.
This English translation finally makes Yang Chengfu's classic work
available to taijiquan enthusiasts in the West. It includes notes
and commentary that clarify the author's frequent classical and
literary turns of phrase and elucidate the philosophical and
political underpinnings that shape the text. The translator
investigates and compares several early taijiquan books in order to
help explain the roles played by two of Yang Chengfu's students,
Dong Yingjie and Zheng Manqing, in bringing Yang Chengfu's words
and teachings into print.
Serious students of taijiquan, and those wishing to deepen their
knowledge of taijiquan history and theory, will find this seminal
work indispensable to their study and practice.
"Small Animal Bandaging, Casting, and Splinting Techniques" is a
well-illustrated how-to manual covering common bandaging methods
used to support and manage both soft tissue and orthopedic
conditions in small animal patients. This highly practical book
offers step-by-step procedures with accompanying photographs to aid
in the secure and effective application of bandages, casts, and
splints, with coverage encompassing indications, aftercare,
advantages, and potential complications for each technique. "Small
Animal Bandaging, Casting, and Splinting Techniques" is an
indispensable guide for busy veterinary technicians and nurses, as
well as veterinarians and veterinary students.
Gaining on the Gap: Changing Hearts, Minds, and Practice serves as
a guide along the journey taken by six individuals who each played
a role in moving a school system along a path where race would not
be a predictor for academic success. Join us as we share insights
to challenges and victories as well as a close look at our own
personal and professional growth.
Maitland Sutterfield is a San Francisco journalist who has just
been through an exhausting divorce. He takes a writer's holiday,
accepting an assignment as a reporter in Guatemala. In full flight
from his personal demons, Sutterfield seeks peace in a beautiful
land unlike his own - but this is Guatemala of the 1980s, and there
is a brutal civil war underway. Instead of peace, Sutterfield finds
the perils of love in a time of revolution, not to mention the
moral quandaries of a country that is descending into madness.
Maitland's main contact in Guatemala is Sofia Mendez, who takes him
to a small Catholic mission in the highlands run by a
Spanish-trained Jesuit priest. Maitland volunteers at the mission,
convinced that the priest's ministry is a vivid example of the
Liberation Theology movement about which he hopes to write the
definitive book-length analysis. But complications abound when
Sofia becomes Maitland's lover, before either he or Sofia have a
chance to discuss the real nature of her previous vocation.
Maitland is oppressively aware of the subtle but inevitable
exploitation of third-world sources by first-world media, but the
tables are turned as he finds himself trapped in a dangerous
dilemma in which Sofia's needs dictate both their futures.
In the Land of Dreams is the story of a man who believes he is
being stalked by the ghost of an ancestor, who, for reasons
unknown, has returned to lower Manhattan, where he owned a tavern
in the 1680s. Eventually the ghostly stalker is taken into the
city-sponsored residential program in which our narrator lives, and
reveals himself to be his troubled ancestor. He tells a story of
violent and irrevocable events that caused a curse to be placed on
their family. Both men are looking for redemption, the ancestor
through confessing his role in the long-ago troubles and the
narrator by finding the right way to interpret these shocking
events...
Capitalize on teens' fascination with technology "Heart
Education: Strategies, Lessons, Science, and Technology for
Cardiovascular Fitness" uses heart monitoring technology to help
students learn concepts of cardiovascular fitness in a fun and
innovative way. With the benefits of immediate and constant
feedback, heart rate monitoring technology provides an engaging way
for students to monitor their exercise sessions.
"Heart Education" is based on the author's principles of Heart
Zones Education, a comprehensive cardiovascular fitness program for
physical education that examines wellness from the viewpoints of
health, fitness, and athletic performance. Designed for students
ages 11 to 18, "Heart Education" incorporates key aspects of the
middle school and high school texts of "Healthy Hearts in the Zone"
with the most current information on training and technology.
"Heart Education's" 10-step program provides a series of modules
with lesson plans, making it simple to present and easy to learn.
The program gets students using heart monitors from the start,
letting them experience the rush of seeing their heart rate
display. Students will learn functions of heart monitoring, how to
apply them based on individual heart rate data, and how to set
realistic physical activity goals. Teachers and students can choose
from over 20 health and fitness workouts and apply strategies for
athletic performance training using heart zones.
"Heart Education" also tackles emotional fitness with structured
plans to reduce stress, build positive connections with others, and
contribute to a stable emotional outlook throughout the turbulent
adolescent years. Also featured are lessons incorporating heart
zones concepts into popular outdoor recreation activities such as
adventure racing, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, geocaching,
and orienteering.
This guidebook features
- a lesson plan finder for easy reference to each lesson and its
accompanying student materials;
- a web resource containing all worksheets, station cards,
training logs, and other forms for easy printing;
- additional resources including a hardware guide for heart rate
monitors, troubleshooting tips, and a series of circuit training
stations for reassessment; and
- recommended health assessments that support the strategies of
the Heart Zone Training (HZT) system.
Although some forms of technology may be viewed as contributing
to an overall decline in physical activity, heart rate monitoring
technology can provide a way to empower students to reach their
personal health and fitness goals. "Heart Education: Strategies,
Lessons, Science, and Technology for Cardiovascular Fitness" can
help you maximize students' activity time with appealing,
technology-based tools and scientifically sound strategies to
positively affect their cardiovascular fitness.
An essential introduction to contemporary strategy at the
operational level of war, now in its second edition Military
Strategy, Joint Operations, and Airpower introduces contemporary
strategy at the operational level of war, particularly as it
relates to airpower. Developed as foundational reading for all US
Air Force Academy cadets, Air Force ROTC students, and Officer
Training School candidates, this intermediate textbook is designed
to close the gap between military theory and practice. It covers
strategic foundations; operational design and joint-service
operations; the air, space, and cyber capabilities that comprise
modern airpower; and contemporary challenges in the application of
strategy. In this second edition, each chapter has been updated and
revised, and several sections have been expanded. Part 2, "Military
Forces and the Joint Fight," now features separate chapters about
each service. Similarly, operational design is expanded from one to
four chapters to provide a more thorough step-by-step guide through
the process. New chapters in this second edition include
"Integrating the Instruments of Power," "The Spectrum of Conflict
and Range of Military Operations," and "The Nuclear Weapons Triad
and Missile Defense." Military Strategy, Joint Operations, and
Airpower's contributing authors and editors include both military
practitioners and scholars of security studies, political science,
and history. In addition to being required reading for US Air Force
cadets, the book provides an essential overview of strategy and
practice for anyone interested in modern airpower.
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