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 William R. Miller, "Listening Well: The Art of Empathic Understanding" English | 2018 | ISBN: 1532634846 | PDF | pages: 114 | 0.5 mb Are you a good listener? How well do you really know the people around you? A capacity for empathic understanding is hard-wired in our brains, but its full expression involves particular listening skills that are seldom learned through ordinary experience. Through clear explanation, specific examples, and practical exercises, Dr. Miller offers a step-by-step process for developing your skillfulness in empathic listening. With a solid basis in sixty years of scientific research, these communication skills are not limited to professionals, and can be learned and applied in your everyday life. Instead of assuming that you know the meaning of what you think you heard, empathic listening lets you develop a more accurate understanding and prevent miscommunication. Empathic understanding can help to deepen personal relationships, alleviate conflict, communicate across differences, and promote positive change. The author also discusses skills for expressing yourself clearly, and for strengthening close relationships and friendships. Through empathic understanding you have access to life experience far beyond your own, and over time, listening well and deeply becomes a way of being, fostering a compassionate and patient acceptance of human frailties-those of others as well as your own.  Karin Maag, "Lifting Hearts to the Lord: Worship with John Calvin in Sixteenth-Century Geneva" English | 2016 | ISBN: 080287147X | EPUB | pages: 223 | 7.9 mb Series: The Church at Worship (CAW) The Church at Worship is a series of documentary case studies of specific worshiping communities from around the world and throughout Christian history - case studies that can inform and enrich worship practices today. In Lifting Hearts to the Lord Karin Maag brings together a wealth of primary sources to examine worship as it was taught and practiced in John Calvin's Geneva. Enhanced with Maag's introductions and numerous marginal notes, this volume covers the period from 1541 to 1564, capturing both Calvin's signal contribution to Reformation worship and the voices of ordinary Genevans as they navigated - and fought about - changes in their worship. Some of the primary materials included here: Selections from John Calvin's Scripture commentaries and sermons dealing with worship Pages from the Genevan Psalter and service book Historical maps and illustrations of Geneva and its churches Genevan city council edicts and ordinances on worship Excerpts from letters, eyewitness accounts of Reformation worship in Geneva, and consistory records  Howard Jackson, "Lexicography: An Introduction" English | 2002 | pages: 209 | ISBN: 0415231736, 0415231728 | PDF | 1,3 mb This book is an accessible introduction to lexicography - the study of dictionaries.  Legends of Drag: Queens of a Certain Age by Harry James Hanson English | June 21, 2022 | ISBN: 1419758470 | 240 pages | PDF | 27 Mb A tribute to the groundbreaking drag icons who helped pave the way for the queens of today  Lydia Lin, "Learn Chinese through Songs and Rhymes" English | ISBN: 1453835342 | 2010 | 398 pages | EPUB | 668 KB *** Free downloadable audio files for the songs and the Chinese lessons ***"Learn Chinese through Songs and Rhymes" demonstrates to beginning and intermediate students the usage of Chinese words and expressions through songs, rhymes, conversations and stories in a systematic way. You will be reading or singing along with the supplemental audio files while following the text on the page. And before long, you will have mastered the basics of speaking Chinese. This is because this book not only provides the English translation for the vocabulary, songs and sample sentences, but also points out the sentence structures and shows you how to apply the language rules. What you will get is a dynamic method that you can use to expand your vocabulary and make your own sentences to handle real-life situations. And you will be doing that in a fun way."Learn Chinese through Songs and Rhymes" features a collection of forty simple songs and rhymes, most of which are familiar Western and Chinese traditional songs, such as Stephen Foster's "Oh Susanna" and the Xinjiang folk song, "Traveler on Camel's Back". The author took care to translate the songs in such a way as to allow them to be sung in either English or Chinese. "Learn Chinese through Songs and Rhymes" is for anyone who wishes to learn Chinese. All the word lists, songs, rhymes and sample sentences in this book are presented with the Simplified Chinese characters, the pinyin phonetic aid as well as the English translation. If you just wish to pick up a few Chinese words and read a few interesting cultural bits, you can do so easily. If you are an independent learner, this book will give you an overall picture of the language and serve as a good foundation for you to build upon. This book will also work well as an interesting supplement to any middle-school, high-school or college-level Chinese instruction program.  Law and Policy of Substantial Ownership and Effective Control of Airlines: Prospects for Change By Isabelle Lelieur 2003 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 0754635481 | PDF | 13 MB The principle of airline substantial ownership and effective control is one of the biggest impediments to the air transport industry growth. Legitimately included in the bilateral agreements since 1946 for national security reasons, States have maintained the principle over the years and used it as a protectionist tool, as well as a bargaining chip. Today, considering that liberalization and globalization concepts are already well-established in the biggest industrial sectors, and a large number of cross-border investments occurs in most of the service sectors through mergers and acquisitions, the time is ripe to remove national restrictions on foreign investments from the airline industry. This comprehensive book identifies those factors that still justify the imposition of national ownership restrictions on airlines and examines the prospects for change in the current policies and regulatory regimes that support them. The readership includes specialists in government departments of transportation, civil aviation authorities and agencies, international organizations, airline executives concerned with general management, economic, legal and public affairs, aviation lawyers, airline pilot associations, law schools concerned with international aviation law.  Jerry Johnson, "Knowing Yellowstone: Science in America's First National Park" English | 2010 | pages: 184 | ISBN: 1589795229 | PDF | 34,4 mb Presently in Yellowstone there are almost 200 active research permits that involve over 500 investigators, but only a small fraction of this scientific work is reported in the popular press. Furthermore, the results are mixed and frequently confusing to the general public. The intent of this book is to explain both the general issues associated with the region and how science is done to understand those issues, from wolf and grizzly bear research to thermal activity. It further describes how science informs policy in the Greater Yellowstone Region, how scientists from an array of disciplines do their work, and finally, how the nature of that work enables or limits future plans for managing the park and surrounding lands.  Larry R. McQueen, "Joel And The Spirit: The Cry Of A Prophetic Hermeneutic" English | 2009 | ISBN: 0981965121 | PDF | pages: 142 | 4.0 mb Joel's cry of lament resonates through both the content and method of this fresh hearing of the prophet's message. The presupposition of a Pentecostal experience of the Spirit moves the author of this volume to discern the development of the book of Joel as a threefold movement of lament, salvation, and judgment. The interrelation of these themes gives distinctive shape to the promise and reception of the Spirit and provides an instructive paradigm for a revisioning of Pentecostal eschatology. Thus a prophetic hermeneutic is uncovered in the book of Joel and modeled in this appropriation of Joel's message.  Werner H. Kelber, Samuel Byrskog, "Jesus in Memory: Traditions in Oral and Scribal Perspectives" English | 2009 | ISBN: 1602582351 | PDF | pages: 295 | 1.9 mb Few scholars have influenced New Testament scholarship in the areas of orality, memory, and tradition more profoundly than Birger Gerhardsson. Today, as these topics have again become important in biblical scholarship, his pioneering work takes on a new light. Though the esteemed contributors may differ on issues in the burgeoning study, they have all enthusiastically taken on the dual task of evaluating Gerhardsson's contribution anew and bringing his insights up to date within the current debate.  Butch Lee, "Jailbreak Out of History: The Re-Biography of Harriet Tubman and "The Evil of Female Loaferism"" English | 2015 | ISBN: 1894946707 | PDF | pages: 175 | 45.6 mb In Jailbreak Out of History, revolutionary Amazon theorist Butch Leeshows how the anticolonial struggles of New Afrikan/Black women werecentral to the unfolding of 19th century amerika, both during and"after" slavery.The book's title essay, "The Re-Biography of Harriet Tubman", recountsthe life and politics of Harriet Tubman, who waged and eventually leadthe war against the capitalist slave system. As Lee explains, "HarrietTubman was a radical political figure, someone totally involved as aplayer in the great political ideas and military storms of her day. Shewas a guerrilla. Someone who lived and taught others to live by thecommunal and working-class New Afrikan culture that her people hadplanted in this difficult ground, and a Black Feminist to the end."At the same time, Lee exposes how the white supremacist patriarchy hasdistorted the truth of Harriet's life, by both trivializing andexceptionalizing her. Countering this disinformation, "The Re-Biographyof Harriet Tubman" surveys the reality of struggle before and during theu.s. Civil War, showing how New Afrikan women were repeatedly taking upthe task of smashing the slave system that confined them, on their ownterms. Lee shows how what was special about Harriet was not that she wasunique in resisting, but rather because of her military skill - "She wasone of the most brilliant professional practitioners ever at the art ofwar. As a guerrilla, so elusive that she could strike fatal blows andnever be felt. Lead battles and go unseen. As an Amazon, she conductedwarfare in a zone beyond men's comprehension. But her blows still fellon point."Jailbreak Out of History's second essay, written in 2014, picks up thestory where The Re-Biography leaves off, showing how New Afrikan women'slabor and resistance remained central to how the global class struggleplayed out in the united states after the white men's Civil War came toan end."The Evil of Female Loaferism" details New Afrikan women's attempts towithdraw from and evade capitalist colonialism, an unofficial butmassive labor strike which threw the capitalists North and South into apanic. The ruling class response consisted of the "Black Codes", JimCrow, re-enslavement through prison labor, mass violence, and ... theestablishment of a neo-colonial Black patriarchy, whose task was to makeNew Afrikan women subordinate to New Afrikan men just as New Afrika wassupposed to be subordinate to white amerika. |
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