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""A stunning tale." -Booklist, STARRED review for How to Be Remembered. For readers of Rebecca Serle's In Five Years and Nikki Erlick's The Measure, Michael Thompson's romantic magical realism will have you smiling, laughing, crying, and questioning: If you knew when someone was going to die...would you tell them? Family doctor Charlie Knight is in his late thirties, still playing tennis against the same people every Friday night. Still jogging the same streets every morning. Still treating the same patients every day-fixing the high blood pressure and arthritic knees of folks who've known him since he was a kid. But Charlie has a secret plan to escape. A plan to live the life he wants, even if the woman he was meant to do it with has left him behind. But then Genevieve Longstaff comes back to their hometown, just as something extraordinary happens. Charlie begins to have a vision of the exact number of days a person has left until they die. Charlie believes it's a gift. It certainly seems like one-after all, he's using it to help his patients, family and friends make the most of their lives: to mend relationships, to travel, to retire. But this gift comes with awful consequences, and soon Charlie realizes there are things he doesn't want to know-especially about the woman he still loves"--

St. Joseph, who is highly venerated as the earthly father of Jesus Christ, remains one of the central figures in Christian devotion. The St. Joseph Novena is a super power prayer tradition that covers nine days and aims the intercession of this sinnerless and humble saint. Joseph, from Nazareth, had an unpretentious start of ordinariness, which was characterized by unshakable faith in God and loyalty to him.There is little insight about Joseph's career, for the Bible focuses mostly on the part he played as Jesus's foster-father. Yet his service could also point to carpentry, which he might have taught Jesus. The absence of detailed historical records allows us to see Joseph as a model of steadfastness and obedience.The Gospels depict Joseph as a man of great faith and high integrity. Upon finding out that there was a maternity, he firstly considered terminating their engagement in secret to save her disgrace. On the other hand, an angelic visitation changed his mind, shedding the light of the divine origin of Mary's conception. Joseph, having being entrusted by God with this role, became a protector and guardian of the Holy Family.The significance of Joseph goes far beyond his earthly life, because his death is obscured. It is the belief that he passed away with Jesus and the Virgin Mary nearby - very peaceful for a righteous man. The silence surrounding Joseph's departure accentuates his humility and selflessness in serving without the need for reward.In this way devotees turn to the St. Joseph Novena to ask for his mediation on many issues, including family matters, employment, and housing. St. Joseph, as the patron saint of workers and the whole Church, is considered to be the most powerful intercessor carrying abundant spiritual weight. The nine-day novena of prayers invites the believers to come close to this iconic saint and ask for instructions and protection from him.In the subsequent days of the novena, participants delve into specific prayers and reflections, invoking St. Joseph's aid in their lives. Whether seeking guidance in decision-making or seeking blessings for family life, the St. Joseph Novena serves as a heartfelt connection to a humble yet powerful saint, whose life exemplifies faith, obedience, and unwavering commitment to God's divine plan.

Embark on a transformative journey into the depths of the human psyche with "Navigating the Human Mind: An In-Depth Approach to Counseling." This comprehensive guide distills 15 years of passionate exploration into the intricacies of psychology and the art of counseling. It's not just a book; it's a culmination of a lifelong dedication to understanding the complexities of the mind and how we can harness its potential for growth, healing, and self-discovery. Inside these pages, you'll find a rich tapestry of knowledge, woven from the latest research, time-honored theories, and innovative practices. The book is structured into insightful chapters that navigate through the foundational theories of psychology, the nuances of different counseling techniques, and the ethical landscapes that guide this profound profession. It's an essential read for anyone intrigued by the inner workings of the mind, whether you're a student, a seasoned practitioner, or simply an enthusiast of psychology. What sets this book apart is its practical approach. You'll not only delve into theoretical frameworks but also see how these are applied in real-world counseling scenarios. From exploring cognitive-behavioral strategies to understanding the transformative power of mindfulness, "Navigating the Human Mind" offers a panoramic view of therapeutic techniques and their impact. The author, with a dedication spanning over 15 years, brings a unique perspective to this field. While not a practicing psychologist, their deep and abiding passion for psychology has led them to explore and synthesize a vast range of knowledge and perspectives. This book represents that journey - a bridge between academic knowledge and a deep, personal understanding of the human condition. In "Navigating the Human Mind," you'll discover: - A comprehensive overview of psychological theories and their evolution over time.- Insightful discussions on a variety of counseling techniques and approaches.- Ethical considerations and the future of counseling in a rapidly changing world.- Real-world case studies and practical applications of counseling strategies.- A guide to personal development and self-help techniques that complement counseling. Whether you're looking to deepen your understanding of counseling or seeking insights into psychological practices, this book is an invaluable resource. It invites you on a journey of discovery - to navigate the complex yet fascinating landscape of the human mind.

Inspired by his own transformation from feeling left out to leading others, career coach and communications advisor Michale Thompson shares 12 easy-to-grasp principles that flip conventional wisdom and provide shy people with the communication skills they need to own their voice, build relationships, and grow their influence.

Monsters, men in black, conspiracies, and unknown energy fields. All a standard week of reporting for the papers of Bayfield. But stranger than the tales in print are the ones untold, in the memories of the seafaring storyteller Winslow Hoffner. When past blurs with present, and science blurs with magic, only the bravest adventurers will heed the call to discover the true nature of those fantastic creatures known as cryptids and the goals of the covert groups that hunt them...

Trim Your TummyA Comprehensive Guide to Losing Belly Fat and Achieving Your Ideal Waistline"Trim Your Tummy" is the ultimate guide to losing belly fat and achieving your ideal waistline. This comprehensive guide is packed with the latest science-backed strategies and practical tips to help you reach your weight loss goals and improve your overall health. From understanding the types of belly fat and their health risks to developing healthy eating habits, creating an exercise plan, managing stress, and maintaining your ideal waistline, this guide has everything you need to know to transform your body and your health. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned health enthusiast, "Trim Your Tummy" offers actionable advice and expert guidance to help you achieve lasting weight loss success. With this guide, you can take control of your health and enjoy a slimmer, healthier, and more confident you.

Discovering how to get your ex back is vital if you are going to win back the affections of your ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend and get him or her back. If you want to find out how to get your Ex back and repair your relationship then read this book for some good advice on getting back together. There are thousands of people every day that manage to win back the affections of their ex-partner and rebuild their damaged relationships. Often, these couples go on to stay together happily for years and sometimes decades. You too, can fix your relationship if you really want to. Getting back together is not difficult, it just sometimes takes a little time and effort and the use of the correct techniques to fix broken relationships. Right now, you are probably feeling at your lowest. You want to get back with your ex but they do not return your feelings and do not want to get back together with you. This can cause you to lose interest in looking after yourself and make you feel depressed. Life without your ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend sometimes does not seem worth living. All of your friends seem to be happy with their partners while you have been left on your own. And now you often ask yourself "how do I?" Cheers......you've gotten to your destination definitely.

When one bad piece of banana bread turns the star attraction of the Oakwood Zoo into a mischievous vampire monkey, and one nasty bite from that monkey turns a man into a raging, hairy monster, only one heroic chicken can rise up to save the day... The Winged Defender flies again! Chicken Boy and all his pals reunite in their fourth action-packed adventure to face their wildest villain yet... the maniacal Monkey Man!

This book introduces the various types of quantum dots to the reader and provides enough information in the text and the references to encourage a new quantum dot user to get started.

The year is 2031 and the US is rapidly devolving into a third world country. Corruption has become public knowledge and the middle-class clings to existence by its fingertips while the federal government does everything in its power to prevent total anarchy. Law enforcement has suffered some of the most devastating cuts - including the Seattle Police Department, employer of Inspector Calvin Lee Asher.When Calvin's ex-girlfriend turns up brutally murdered, he is denied the investigation and assigned instead to uncover a murder conspiracy that resulted in the death of one of the richest men in the country, and a long time friend of his late father. Calvin knows from the get-go that all parties involved are manipulating his investigation, but when the NSA claims terrorism may be involved, the inspector finds himself caught in a web of conspiracies that threaten to destroy what remains of the social order.

"For fans of Matt Haig and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue comes a big-hearted novel following a man who can never be remembered and his journey to become unforgettable... On an ordinary night in an ordinary year, Tommy Llewellyn's doting parents wake in a home without toys and diapers, without photos of their baby scattered about, and without any idea that the small child asleep in his crib is theirs. That's because Tommy is a boy destined to never be remembered. On the same day every year, everyone around him forgets he exists, and he grows up enduring his own universal Reset. That is until something extraordinary happens: Tommy Llewellyn falls in love. Determined to finally carve out a life for himself and land the girl of his dreams, Tommy sets out on a mission to finally trick the Reset and be remembered. But legacies aren't so easily won, and Tommy must figure out what's more important-the things we leave behind or the people we bring along with us. With the speculative edge of How to Stop Time, the unending charm of Maria Semple, and the heart of your favorite book club read, How to Be Remembered is a life-affirming novel about discovering how to leave your mark on the places and people you love most"--

For most, Bayfield is a quaint, unassuming harbor town. For some, the decades-old headlines alleging unexplainable sightings of strange creatures in the water tell a different story. For a select few, the truth behind these legends, speculations, and folklore is more than a mere mystery: There's magic in the bay. And for local fisherman Mr. Winslow Hoffner, it's all just a matter of finding yourself in the wrong place at the right time...

What if you could live your life from a heart that was settled in love, convinced of its worth, and moved by purpose and true desire? What if you could live unafraid and unashamed, sure that you belong? Welcome to The Deepening Journey!The Deepening Journey was recorded at The Deepening Weekend, birthed out of friendship and conversations in which our guide team shared our own stories of knowing God, being known by Him, exploring our hearts, and friendships.As women, we long to experience the reality that we are seen, known, and extravagantly loved ... to experience our belovedness.Our hearts need rest. Comfort. Clarity. We need a chance just to be still. To hear God. Oh, we so desperately want and need to hear God. We long to hear God's wisdom for the situations and details of our lives, but perhaps even more, we need to hear God's heart about our very existence. Do you see me, Father? Does my heart matter to You? Am I pleasing to you?And we have questions about our existence as women. What am I made for? Where do I fit in your design? What is the glory that You've assigned to my life?Through The Deepening Journey, you are invited to explore with us some of how we were made to live and flourish in the Kingdom of God, what comes against that intended flourishing, and the offer of healing, integration, and restoration.Throughout the six sessions of The Deepening Journey, you'll have opportunities to explore more of your story and the incredible journey of your heart - in both time alone with God and in community with other women.How It WorksSimply purchase The Deepening Journey Journal Workbook, which includes one copy of the Journal Workbook and access to the six video sessions. Each session, you'll watch the video, take notes in the Journal Workbook, then engage the questions in the Journal Workbook as a group. Between sessions, there are questions to invite you into intimacy with God through the Time Alone with God questions at the end of each session.What You'll NeedThe Deepening Journey Journal WorkbookInternet Access

Do you know why the DASH diet is voted the "Best Diet" year after year?It's simple: The DASH diet is an easy and sustainable tool for creating a healthful lifestyle. Based on research by the National Institutes of Health, and chosen by U.S. News & World Report as its #1 choice in Best Diets Overall, Best Diets for Healthy Eating, and Best Diabetes Diets, the DASH diet rises above the noise of other gimmicky weight-loss plans.Eating healthily doesn't mean that you have to deprive yourself of your favorite foods even when you are suffering from hypertension and high blood pressure.You only have to know how to mix and match food items and have the right portion sizes to make sure that you won't exceed the healthy daily limit of calories and sodium suited for your health. DASH, which means Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension, helps you to maintain healthy levels of blood pressure. It also lowers your risk of gut problems and cancer.It decreases the bad cholesterol in your blood and makes your bones stronger.This eating plan is all about the right proportions. It requires you to eat vegetables rich in protein, limit your salt intake to 200 mg per day, reduce your consumption of red meat, sweets, and sweetened drinks, and consume foods with low cholesterol and total fat content.With so many recipes to try, it will be easier for you to commit to the eating plan. This will take your mind off eating too much processed and salty foods. The DASH eating plan is a lifestyle. It requires gradual changes to your eating habits and commitment to follow other health techniques to boost its effects.What are you still waiting for?Grab your copy now!

In this new work, political theorist Michael J. Thompson argues that modern societies are witnessing a decline in one of the core building blocks of modernity: the autonomous self. Far from being an illusion of the Enlightenment, Thompson contends that the individual is a defining feature of the project to build a modern democratic culture and polity. One of the central reasons for its demise in recent decades has been the emergence of what he calls the "e;cybernetic society,"e; a cohesive totalization of the social logics of the institutional spheres of economy, culture and polity. These logics have been progressively defined by the imperatives of economic growth and technical-administrative management of labor and consumption, routinizing patterns of life, practices, and consciousness throughout the culture. Evolving out of the neoliberal transformation of economy and society since the 1980s, the cybernetic society has transformed how that the individual is articulated in contemporary society. Thompson examines the various pathologies of the self and consciousness that result from this form of socialization-such as hyper-reification, alienated moral cognition, false consciousness, and the withered ego-in new ways to demonstrate the extent of deformation of modern selfhood. Only with a more robust, more socially embedded concept of autonomy as critical agency can we begin to reconstruct the principles of democratic individuality and community.

Business Diagnostics is an invaluable reference guide for today's business student and owner. The authors have devised a unique framework that allows a business student to quickly find information without reference to numerous business texts and p...

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In this book, Michael Thompson argues that the influence of identity politics on modern Labor's political agenda – assisted by a political class whose sole concern is power – poses an "existential" threat to Labor. The warning signs are clear. Popular disaffection with the political class is increasing, and the Party's embrace of left-wing, progressive issues is sidelining core working-class aspirations and grievances that used to be the focus of Labor politics.

Why do people want what they want? Why does one person see the world as a place to control, while another feels controlled by the world? A useful theory of culture, the authors contend, should start with these questions, and the answers, given different historical conditions, should apply equally well to people of all times, places, and walks of life.Taking their cue from the pioneering work of anthropologist Mary Douglas, the authors of Cultural Theory have created a typology of five ways of life?egalitarianism, fatalism, individualism, hierarchy, and autonomy?to serve as an analytic tool in examining people, culture, and politics. They then show how cultural theorists can develop large numbers of falsifiable propositions.Drawing on parables, poetry, case studies, fiction, and the Great Books, the authors illustrate how cultural biases and social relationships interact in particular ways to yield life patterns that are viable, sustainable, and ultimately, changeable under certain conditions. Figures throughout the book show the dynamic quality of these ways of life and specifically illustrate the role of surprise in effecting small- and large-scale change.The authors compare Cultural Theory with the thought of master social theorists from Montesquieu to Stinchcombe and then reanalyze the classic works in the political culture tradition from Almond and Verba to Pye. Demonstrating that there is more to social life than hierarchy and individualism, the authors offer evidence from earlier studies showing that the addition of egalitarianism and fatalism facilitates cross-national comparisons.

How do objects that have lost their value become valuable once again?

Through vividly written case studies and a reader-friendly question-and-answer format, Mom, They're Teasing Me is full of specific, how-to advice for parents to help their children navigate the sometimes harsh terrain of social life-which includes name-calling, after-school fights, esteem-crushing cliques, and malicious exclusion by the popular kids. Through thoughtful discussion and insightful suggestions, parents will discover• The difference between real risk and normal social pain• The appropriate time to intervene-and when to step back• Tips on how to mediate between children-without appearing meddlesome• The importance of teaching and encouraging leadership• The redemptive power of friendshipMom, They're Teasing Me answers key questions about the many manifestations of social cruelty, offers compelling descriptions of prime "teasing” scenarios, and illustrates how to counter them. It is an indispensable book for involved parents who want to make their child's formative years rich and rewarding.

Any sound practical philosophy must be clear on practical concepts concepts, in particular, of life, action, and practice. This clarity is Michael Thompson s aim in his ambitious work. In Thompson s view, failure to comprehend the structures of thought and judgment expressed in these concepts has disfigured modern moral philosophy, rendering it incapable of addressing the larger questions that should be its focus.In three investigations, Thompson considers life, action, and practice successively, attempting to exhibit these interrelated concepts as pure categories of thought, and to show how a proper exposition of them must be Aristotelian in character. He contends that the pure character of these categories, and the Aristotelian forms of reflection necessary to grasp them, are systematically obscured by modern theoretical philosophy, which thus blocks the way to the renewal of practical philosophy. His work recovers the possibility, within the tradition of analytic philosophy, of hazarding powerful generalities, and of focusing on the larger issues like life that have the power to revive philosophy.As an attempt to relocate crucial concepts from moral philosophy and the theory of action into what might be called the metaphysics of life, this original work promises to reconfigure a whole sector of philosophy. It is a work that any student of contemporary philosophy must grapple with."