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Focus Puller offers an insight into one man's life over a span of decades, as he faces questions about life: family, relationships, sexuality, commitment, health/well-being and the choices we make. The non-linear and flashback sequence highlights the value of the seemingly small experiences of life and also reflects the imperfect nature of life experience. The book invites readers to think about their own lives, whether the oftentimes observat...

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Ed Hess's Hyper-Learning is uniquely practical and is the essential starting point for charting new ways of thinking, living, working, leading, and being fulfilled in our new world.Gary Roughead, Admiral, US Navy (retired) former Chief of Naval Operations The Digital Age will raise the question of how we humans will stay relevant in the workplace. To stay relevant, we have to be able to excel cognitively, behaviorally, and emotionally in way...

In Clarke County, the spirits of the past bring history to life. The ghost of a brokenhearted Confederate soldier stares out a window waiting in vain for the return of the love of his life. Victims of a plane crash still linger at the scene of the tragedy forty-five years later. Union troops are still crossing the Shenandoah River through a hail of musket balls and cannon fire. From the legendary phantom coach of Carter Hall to lesser-known ha...

How do we save our jobs from the robots? Darden School of Business Professor Edward Hess says we can keep our jobs by consciously and continuously developing the qualities that make us human, and hyper-learning is the key.How will you pursue a meaningful life when smart technology takes over most of the jobs that humans currently do? Darden School of Business Professor Edward Hess says the answer is hyper-learning: developing our uniquely huma...

Humility Is the New Smart Your job is at risk-if not now, then soon. We are on the leading edge of a Smart Machine Age led by artificial intelligence that will be as transformative for us as the Industrial Revolution was for our ancestors. Smart machines will take over millions of jobs in manufacturing, office work, the service sector, the professions, you name it. Not only can they know more data and analyze it faster than any mere human, say...

Humility Is the New Smart Your job is at risk-if not now, then soon. We are on the leading edge of a Smart Machine Age led by artificial intelligence that will be as transformative for us as the Industrial Revolution was for our ancestors. Smart machines will take over millions of jobs in manufacturing, office work, the service sector, the professions, you name it. Not only can they know more data and analyze it faster than any mere human, say...

First stop in the Stadium Adventure Series…Wrigley Field!Hawk and his brothers, Nestor and Michael, three adopted boys from diverse ethnic backgrounds, are obsessed with sports. However, not once have they ever had even a sniff of hot-roasted peanuts, heard the crisp crack of the bat or watched a gleaming white baseball disappear over an outfield wall while sitting in the stands of a major league stadium.So, when their mom arranges for her rou...

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To compete with today's increasing globalization and rapidly evolving technologies, individuals and organizations must take their ability to learn--the foundation for continuous improvement, operational excellence, and innovation--to a much higher level. In Learn or Die, Edward D. Hess combines recent advances in neuroscience, psychology, behavioral economics, and education with key research on high-performance businesses to create an actionab...

Excerpt from Practical Handbook on Dermatology: Containing a Treatise on Diseases of the Skin, Scalp and HairThe large and continuous membrane, called the cutis, or skin, which covers and protects the internal parts of the animal organism, is one of the most interesting organs of the body. W The first changes in the general health, the mental impressions, the feelings of satisfaction or of shame, of love or anger, are manifested in the face by...

Excerpt from Practical Handbook on Dermatology: Containing a Treatise on Diseases of the Skin, Scalp and HairThe large and continuous membrane, called the cutis, or skin, which covers and protects the internal parts of the animal organism, is one of the most interesting organs of the body. W The first changes in the general health, the mental impressions, the feelings of satisfaction or of shame, of love or anger, are manifested in the face by...

Excerpt from Graphics and Structural DesignAlthough the book is called Graphics and Structural Design the determination of the stresses has not been confined to graphi cal means, the 'other usual methods have been included.The design of a plate girder may seem out of keeping with the purpose of the book. The author formerly used a crane runway girder instead of the railway bridge, but decided that the railway girders made the more comprehensiv...

Excerpt from Machine Design: Hoists, Derricks, Cranes The remaining part will be soft and easily machined. The chilling is effected by using iron sections faced with a light coat ing of loam at the points to be chilled. Iron car-wheels are made in this way, thus giving a chilled tread to resist wear, while the hub is soft, permitting of easy boring for the axle. The thickness of the chilled portion may vary from inch to 78 inch or more, depe...

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Gründtliche und Aussfürliche Erweisung, auss den Uhreltisten H. Vättern und Lehrn ist ein unveränderter, hochwertiger Nachdruck der Originalausgabe aus dem Jahr 1592. Hansebooks ist Herausgeber von Literatur zu unterschiedlichen Themengebieten wie Forschung und Wissenschaft, Reisen und Expeditionen, Kochen und Ernährung, Medizin und weiteren Genres. Der Schwerpunkt des Verlages liegt auf dem Erhalt historischer Literatur. Viele Werke historisc...

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Eindrucksvoll und authentisch sind die Erinnerungen des Benediktinerpaters Sales Hess an seine vierjährige Gefangenschaft im Konzentrationslager Dachau. Das Buch, das nur wenige Monate nach seiner Entlassung aus dem KZ entstand, rührt an und bewegt zutiefst. Sales Hess schreibt von Erfahrungen jenseits der Menschlichkeit, aber auch von Momenten gelebter Nächstenliebe unter den Leidensgenossen. Und er schreibt davon, wie tiefes Vertrauen auf Go...