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Battling a chronic disease can often be a lonely and frustrating
ordeal. It doesn't have to be. "Alone in My Universe, " compiled by
Wayne Brown, presents a series of writings from patients suffering
from acromegaly. Based on actual personal experiences, these
narratives provide a primer of understanding for others dealing
with this chronic, debilitating disease that affects many of the
body's systems.This collaborative effort, written by real people
touched by acromegaly, attempts to raise awareness of this
low-profile disease. Each patient tells his or her story as it
relates to the disease and its complications. Topics include the
following: Handling pre-diagnosis frustration Dealing with fears of
medical treatment and surgery Managing family issues and work
issues Talking with children Managing negative energy Coping with
good and bad days Living life each dayWith sympathy, empathy, and
mutual support, "Alone in the Universe" shares the heartfelt
stories of those suffering from acromegaly to show others that they
are not alone in their battle.
Who needs to study for an MBA when you have this book? The
five-minute MBA is a deceptively simple little book that presents
wise business advice in a clear and concise way. Written by New
Zealand’s top ‘corporate doctor’, Wayne Brown, it teaches ten
crucial lessons vital for everyone at every level of business. By
distilling the MBA into under 100 pages, Brown has ensured that
only the most important and necessary bits remain, those that will
lead to dramatic improvements in any business. From treating
customers correctly and fixing mistakes upfront to doing the right
thing and remaining accountable, The five-minute MBA is a
practical, experience-based MBA crash-course that is guaranteed to
offer genuine value, whether you are a junior, mid-level or senior
businessperson. Now you, too, can learn how to bring everyday good
health to your business.
Encapsulating life in the Caribbean in the last decades of the 20th
century, these pieces, collected from the highly popular weekly
column "In Our Time," are carefully infused with a poet's delight
in the power of language and a craftsman's regard for meticulous
structure. Deliberately blurring the lines between fiction and
reality, these stories form an unrivalled portrait of a rapidly
changing Caribbean society. Invoking memories to resurrect the
people and places the author has known or loved, this is a seminal
work from a mentor to a whole generation of West Indian authors.
What do The Beatles, Apollo 13, the Roman military, a pack of
wolves, and the very best companies in the world all have in
common? Answer: Plasticity. They can change, adapt, and excel as
the situation requires. In most organizations, strategy and
functional excellence get the most attention. But even the best of
either provides only limited long-term advantage. Highly effective
organizations add Plasticity as a third dimension and rack up
stellar breakthroughs-again and again. It is the key ingredient
that allows strategy and functional excellence to deliver value. As
the authors show in Corporate Plasticity: How to Change, Adapt, and
Excel, Plasticity also enables great organizations to break down
barriers and collaborate in the pursuit of a common objective, and
to reconfigure or rewire themselves to face down challenges or
reach ever-stronger competitive positions. Through entertaining
stories and astute analysis, this book demonstrates that Plasticity
spurs sports teams to become champions, companies to book record
earnings, and artists to attain worldwide fame. You can use its
principles-adaptability, flexibility, fluid networks and roles,
lofty goals, and innovation, among others-to achieve operational
excellence, tear down silos, and create more vibrant, creative
enterprises. Your organization can become not just highly
profitable and fun to work for, but an organization that can change
the world. Plasticity allows an organization to choose its own
destiny, become versatile, and dare more than others. Its success
lies in a set of abilities called the Magic 7: Purpose: Your
company must discover, select, and express what it is meant for.
Focus: Your company must have the courage to ignore everything that
is not in line with its purpose, and then see that purpose through.
Culture: Your company must create the conditions that allow people
to work across boundaries and outside of predefined roles. Spirit:
Your company must inspire people to feel part of a cause that is
bigger than they are. Networking: Your company must provide the
means, freedom, and encouragement for people to nurture and grow
their internal and external networks continuously. Knowledge: Your
company must encourage experts to provide their knowledge and make
it readily available to everyone who needs it. Leadership: Your
company's leaders must model and personify the characteristics they
want others to adopt. Silo thinking? Poor collaboration? Weak
earnings? Strategies that gain no traction? Corporate Plasticity:
How to Change, Adapt, and Excel is the answer. It shows you how to
cultivate each of the seven disciplines to infuse Plasticity in an
organization. That-along with razor-sharp strategy and crisp
execution-will unleash the power you need to reach both personal
and corporate goals. You might even change the world.
At the time this collection of poems was first published in 1972,
Wayne Brown's careful formalism--which belies a turbulence of ideas
and emotions--was out of fashion and the poetry of revolution was
in full swing. Now, however, these poems are seen as seminal in
Caribbean poetry, both for their intrinsic qualities and for
Brown's crucial role as the mentor of a current generation of
Caribbean poets. Exploring the ties between creativity and
contentment, the poems enumerate the threats to these human goals,
and through anecdotes--frequently drawn from the poet's own family
life--reflect on the rewards and pain of remaining in the Caribbean
while others have gone abroad. To understand their exile, which has
its own heartache, several poems are odes to the artists the author
admires most, including Pablo Neruda, Vladimir Nabokov, Rainer
Maria Rilke, and the Tobagan poet Eric Roach.
Greek Natural Philosophy presents the primary sources on the
Presocratics in a straightforward way in order to tell a coherent
story about the astonishing development of natural philosophy in
ancient Greece and its relevance today. The book begins with
historical influences on the birth of natural philosophy,
especially literacy and the ecosystem services provided by the
natural environment of ancient Greece. It argues that the
individual philosophers' thoughts about the nature of the cosmos,
living things, humankind, and human culture were linked by a
"diachronic dialectic of ideas." Each philosopher's speculations
were subjected to a critique by the next generation who crafted
more subtle theories. The dialectical transition is traced from the
mythopoeic worldview of Hesiod to the rational worldview of Thales
and his Milesian successors, followed by Xenophanes and Heraclitus,
then Parmenides and his Eleatic successors, and the qualitative
pluralisms of Anaxagoras and Empedocles. An entirely fresh
interpretation is provided of the Atomists and later Pythagoreans,
whose work culminated in the ideas upon which Galileo, Newton, and
the other architects of modern science, continued to build. In the
span of only two centuries, the Presocratics developed the basic
principles of philosophy and natural science, ecology, mathematical
astronomy, the atomic theory of matter, an inertial theory of
motion, and the possibility that our solar system is only one of
infinitely many scattered throughout infinite time and space. The
concluding chapter traces natural philosophy through subsequent
centuries until its abandonment in 20th century philosophy, leading
to the moribund state of philosophy by the end of that century. The
authors show how environmental philosophy represents a return to
natural philosophy and a model for the revival of philosophy's
vigor and relevance in the 21st century. Greek Natural Philosophy
is suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses in ancient Greek
philosophy or in environmental philosophy, and will be of interest
to scholars in these fields.
Discover a whole new revelation of total abundance through the keys
of illumination revealed in the pages of this new, exciting
revelation of the Twin Horns of Jireh. Explore the connection of
the blessings of the harvests of worship and encounter the
astounding increase of the spoils of spiritual warfare praise.
Dennis and Sita have seven sons, who start their early life in
Jamaica, until they immigrate to Brixton in the1960's. The main
protagonist Basil embarks upon a brutal career as a bare- knuckle
prized fighter. He forms a street gang the 'untouchables', they
accept employment from Ronny Kray as south London enforcers to the
firm. Basil later joins the Black Panthers from Shakespeare Road.
Before he is mysteriously found dead in a prison cell on the eve of
his release. Wayne the youngest brother then embarks on a personal
investigation to uncover the real truth surrounding the untimely
death. This investigation opens up a Pandora's box that gives the
story an unimaginable twist.
Because the Jews did not correctly understand the prophecies
concerning Jesus due to their spiritually 'blind leaders', they
fulfilled them when he was crucified. People fulfill Bible
prophecy, and don't even know it, when they don't correctly
understand it. For this very same reason, these 'last days'
prophecies of Jesus, Peter and Paul are presently being fulfilled
right before your eyes, and those who are fulfilling them haven't
the slightest suspicion, just like the Jews who didn't recognise
the truth about Jesus. This book make these 'last days' prophecies
easy to see, and easy to understand.
Battling a chronic disease can often be a lonely and frustrating
ordeal. It doesn't have to be. "Alone in My Universe, " compiled by
Wayne Brown, presents a series of writings from patients suffering
from acromegaly. Based on actual personal experiences, these
narratives provide a primer of understanding for others dealing
with this chronic, debilitating disease that affects many of the
body's systems.This collaborative effort, written by real people
touched by acromegaly, attempts to raise awareness of this
low-profile disease. Each patient tells his or her story as it
relates to the disease and its complications. Topics include the
following: Handling pre-diagnosis frustration Dealing with fears of
medical treatment and surgery Managing family issues and work
issues Talking with children Managing negative energy Coping with
good and bad days Living life each dayWith sympathy, empathy, and
mutual support, "Alone in the Universe" shares the heartfelt
stories of those suffering from acromegaly to show others that they
are not alone in their battle.
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