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- Loneliness/Emotional Isolation
- Sibling Rivalry/Estrangement (especially over inheritance)
- Chronic Illness/Pain (especially the difficult to diagnose)
- Scars from Sexual and/or Emotional Abuse/Divorce
- All types of Addictions
- Bigotry, Crime, War
- Self-Absorbed or Abrasive Personality

These, and just about all other interpersonal and social ills, are either caused or driven by a single poison. Some call it "anger," others describe it as "hurt," but it is almost always plain ol? resentment. Of course, if your pastor or your saintly grandmother carries resentment, the word may not sound as negatively powerful as the words "anger" or "hurt." But the reality is that resentment is "anger" and "hurt" at their worst! And what's worse, most of us will go to any lengths to hold on to at least some of it. That's why we have resentment-related problems, and you can probably add to those listed above. If you need to "let it go, get over it," or just become "emotionally free," or you know someone who does (and who doesn't), the Honest Approach will undo the damage and keep you resentment free! Psychologist and Pastor Glenn W. Nowell, Ph.D., details five simple steps you can take over a gradual stress-free seven weeks that will change your life and richly impact those you care about and love the most. "Simple" doesn't necessarily mean "easy," but it does mean that just about anyone can follow these simple exercises.

Dr. Nowell provides case studies of both people who were convinced that their scars were hopelessly deep and unforgivable and people who were resentment driven without even realizing it. He recounts miracle after miracle of their transformation. In addition to being a personal self-help guide, a carefully defined timeline and discussion questions make this an excellent counseling tool and resource for Bible study and group discussion.

Kurzbeschreibung

- Loneliness/Emotional Isolation
- Sibling Rivalry/Estrangement (especially over inheritance)
- Chronic Illness/Pain (especially the difficult to diagnose)
- Scars from Sexual and/or Emotional Abuse/Divorce
- All types of Addictions
- Bigotry, Crime, War
- Self-Absorbed or Abrasive Personality

These, and just about all other interpersonal and social ills, are either caused or driven by a single poison. Some call it "anger," others describe it as "hurt," but it is almost always plain ol? resentment. Of course, if your pastor or your saintly grandmother carries resentment, the word may not sound as negatively powerful as the words "anger" or "hurt." But the reality is that resentment is "anger" and "hurt" at their worst! And what's worse, most of us will go to any lengths to hold on to at least some of it. That's why we have resentment-related problems, and you can probably add to those listed above. If you need to "let it go, get over it," or just become "emotionally free," or you know someone who does (and who doesn't), the Honest Approach will undo the damage and keep you resentment free! Psychologist and Pastor Glenn W. Nowell, Ph.D., details five simple steps you can take over a gradual stress-free seven weeks that will change your life and richly impact those you care about and love the most. "Simple" doesn't necessarily mean "easy," but it does mean that just about anyone can follow these simple exercises.

Dr. Nowell provides case studies of both people who were convinced that their scars were hopelessly deep and unforgivable and people who were resentment driven without even realizing it. He recounts miracle after miracle of their transformation. In addition to being a personal self-help guide, a carefully defined timeline and discussion questions make this an excellent counseling tool and resource for Bible study and group discussion.

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With genteel grace and quiet fortitude, Emma Garrett presides over Hill House, a stately boardinghouse in the canal village of Candlewood, New York. She finds her purpose in caring for her guests, ministering to them with a generous dose of wisdom and humor. But when a "runaway grandma" lands on her doorstep, Emma's need to fix every wrong places her in the midst of a family feud.



Emma's concerns heighten when her attorney, Zachary Breckenwith, delivers life-changing news, leaving Emma reeling from the implications. With her future suddenly uncertain, Emma longs to restore the peace of Hill House--for her guests and within her own heart.



FIND A WELCOME RETREAT IN CANDLEWOOD AS YOU EXPERIENCE THE BEAUTY, FRIENDSHIP, AND FAITH IN THE LIVES OF ITS QUAINT AND COLORFUL CHARACTERS.

Kurzbeschreibung

With genteel grace and quiet fortitude, Emma Garrett presides over Hill House, a stately boardinghouse in the canal village of Candlewood, New York. She finds her purpose in caring for her guests, ministering to them with a generous dose of wisdom and humor. But when a "runaway grandma" lands on her doorstep, Emma's need to fix every wrong places her in the midst of a family feud.



Emma's concerns heighten when her attorney, Zachary Breckenwith, delivers life-changing news, leaving Emma reeling from the implications. With her future suddenly uncertain, Emma longs to restore the peace of Hill House--for her guests and within her own heart.



FIND A WELCOME RETREAT IN CANDLEWOOD AS YOU EXPERIENCE THE BEAUTY, FRIENDSHIP, AND FAITH IN THE LIVES OF ITS QUAINT AND COLORFUL CHARACTERS.

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As a young woman, Jane Goodall was best known for her groundbreaking fieldwork with the chimpanzees of Gombe, Africa. Goodall's work has always been controversial, mostly because she broke the mold of research scientist by developing meaningful relationships with her "specimens" and honoring their lives as she would other humans.

Now at the age of 60, she continues to break the mold of scientist by revealing how her research and worldwide conservation institutes spring from her childhood callings and adult spiritual convictions. Reason for Hope is a smoothly written memoir that does not shy away from facing the realities of environmental destruction, animal abuse, and genocide. But Goodall shares her antidote to the poison of despair with specific examples of why she has not lost faith. For instance, she shares her spiritual epiphany during a visit to Auschwitz; her bravery in the face of chimpanzee imprisonment in medical laboratories; and devotes a whole chapter to individuals, corporations, and countries that are doing the right thing. But most of all Goodall provides a beautifully written plea for why everyone can and must find a reason for hope. --Gail Hudson

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Find food for thought and debate in this e-book by Debut author Brent Pearson.

Right from the beginning his assertions are simple: that this is a subjective look at philosophy, morality, economics and even sexual interplay that will inspire you to think, whether you agree with him or not!

Find out what your rights really are, what to do about chain letters, and what grade school children picking strawberries has to do with economics in this unique look at politics, philosophy, and our daily lives.

Content approximately 6,500 words.

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'Part of being positive is being able to change plans as you go along and realizing that not everything goes along to a predetermined plan. Iit's how you deal with the change that makes all the difference. And this is the whole story behind this trip - the fact that everybody has got mountains to climb within themselves.'

Sometimes those mountains are mountains in our mind. Real life heroes are not the cardboard cut outs of fairy tale endings. They are molded out of disappointment and defeat and the knowledge that true triumph is about trying, whatever the result.

Follow this Inspirational true life story of a man with cerebral palsy from birth as he powers his wheelchair up Mount Kilimanjaro....

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It's easy to dismiss Be Here Now as the relic of a whacked-out '60s acid tripper. Paging through the center section of the book, with its inch-high print and psychedelic drawings, you come across lines like:

Magic Theatre
For madmen only
price of admission
your
mind

Then you turn to the first page of the book, and you are suddenly sucked into the story of a Harvard psychiatrist who has reached the pinnacle of success, discovers the mind-expanding powers of acid, and ends up trooping through India with a 23-year-old holy man from Laguna Beach, California. In the story, you see all the trappings of your own life and begin to wonder if India might hold the answers after all. Before booking your ticket, turn to the last section of the Be Here Now, "Cookbook for a Sacred Life." Ram Dass saves you the trouble by proffering a sober introduction to the basics of Hindu religion. Although he still can't resist CAPITAL LETTERS, he has done his homework, presenting a whole range of concepts and practices having to do with yoga postures, meditation, renunciation, dying, and sexual energy. So, for the most part, Be Here Now stands the test of time, and if you can entertain the center section in a retro kind of a spirit, it might be just what you're looking for: "The opposite of craving is saying, baby, this is the way it is, yeah, OK, here and now, this is it. I ACCEPT THE HERE & NOW FULLY." --Brian Bruya

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Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
w. ill.
Gewicht: 156 gr / Abmessung: 19,5 cm
Von Pausch, Randy / Von Zaslow, Jeffrey

On September 18, computer science professor Randy Pausch stepped in front of an audience of 400 people at Carnegie Mellon University to deliver a last lecture called ''Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams''. With slides of his CT scans beaming out to the audience, Randy told his audience about the cancer that is devouring his pancreas and that will claim his life in a matter of months. On the stage that day, Randy was youthful, energetic, handsome, often cheerfully, darkly funny. He rejected all pity, especially self-pity. He seemed invincible. But this was a brief moment, as he himself acknowledged.
In THE LAST LECTURE Randy will use his instantly beloved talk, and his life in that context, to share in more detail than the lecture could allow how he came to each of the applicable lessons he is working so hard to leave for his young children, to help them make their way in the world.
THE LAST LECTURE will inspire readers for years to come to choose to live each day of their lives with purpose and joy. His book will allow readers to commune with Randy''s words and experience. It will be a permanent reminder of this rare thing he has done for his kids and his wife, and in the process, all the rest of us.

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Book Description

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."
--Randy Pausch

A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?

When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave--"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"--wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because "time is all you have...and you may find one day that you have less than you think"). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living.

In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humor, inspiration and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.

Questions for Randy Pausch

We were shy about barging in on Randy Pausch's valuable time to ask him a few questions about his expansion of his famous Last Lecture into the book by the same name, but he was gracious enough to take a moment to answer. (See Randy to the right with his kids, Dylan, Logan, and Chloe.) As anyone who has watched the lecture or read the book will understand, the really crucial question is the last one, and we weren't surprised to learn that the "secret" to winning giant stuffed animals on the midway, like most anything else, is sheer persistence.

Amazon.com: I apologize for asking a question you must get far more often than you'd like, but how are you feeling?

Pausch: The tumors are not yet large enough to affect my health, so all the problems are related to the chemotherapy. I have neuropathy (numbness in fingers and toes), and varying degrees of GI discomfort, mild nausea, and fatigue. Occasionally I have an unusually bad reaction to a chemo infusion (last week, I spiked a 103 fever), but all of this is a small price to pay for walkin' around.

Amazon.com: Your lecture at Carnegie Mellon has reached millions of people, but even with the short time you apparently have, you wanted to write a book. What did you want to say in a book that you weren't able to say in the lecture?

Pausch: Well, the lecture was written quickly--in under a week. And it was time-limited. I had a great six-hour lecture I could give, but I suspect it would have been less popular at that length ;-).

A book allows me to cover many, many more stories from my life and the attendant lessons I hope my kids can take from them. Also, much of my lecture at Carnegie Mellon focused on the professional side of my life--my students, colleagues and career. The book is a far more personal look at my childhood dreams and all the lessons I've learned. Putting words on paper, I've found, was a better way for me to share all the yearnings I have regarding my wife, children and other loved ones. I knew I couldn't have gone into those subjects on stage without getting emotional.

Amazon.com: You talk about the importance--and the possibility!--of following your childhood dreams, and of keeping that childlike sense of wonder. But are there things you didn't learn until you were a grownup that helped you do that?

Pausch: That's a great question. I think the most important thing I learned as I grew older was that you can't get anywhere without help. That means people have to want to help you, and that begs the question: What kind of person do other people seem to want to help? That strikes me as a pretty good operational answer to the existential question: "What kind of person should you try to be?"

Amazon.com: One of the things that struck me most about your talk was how many other people you talked about. You made me want to meet them and work with them--and believe me, I wouldn't make much of a computer scientist. Do you think the people you've brought together will be your legacy as well?

Pausch: Like any teacher, my students are my biggest professional legacy. I'd like to think that the people I've crossed paths with have learned something from me, and I know I learned a great deal from them, for which I am very grateful. Certainly, I've dedicated a lot of my teaching to helping young folks realize how they need to be able to work with other people--especially other people who are very different from themselves.

Amazon.com: And last, the most important question: What's the secret for knocking down those milk bottles on the midway?

Pausch: Two-part answer:
     1) long arms
     2) discretionary income / persistence

Actually, I was never good at the milk bottles. I'm more of a ring toss and softball-in-milk-can guy, myself. More seriously, though, most people try these games once, don't win immediately, and then give up. I've won *lots* of midway stuffed animals, but I don't ever recall winning one on the very first try. Nor did I expect to. That's why I think midway games are a great metaphor for life.