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The Spirit's Pilgrimage
by Madeleine Slade“The Spirit's Pilgrimage by Madeleine Slade is a spiritual memoir that chronicles the author's journey from a privileged life in England to a life of service in India. Slade, who was known as Mirabehn, was a disciple of Mahatma Gandhi and played a significant role in India's struggle for independence. The book begins with Slade's childhood in England and her early years as a socialite. However, after reading Gandhi's autobiography, she felt a deep calling to serve the Indian people and left her comfortable life to join him in India. The Spirit's Pilgrimage details Slade's experiences living with Gandhi and his followers, as well as her involvement in the Indian independence movement. She writes about the challenges she faced as a foreigner in India and the sacrifices she made to serve the cause she believed in. Throughout the book, Slade reflects on her spiritual journey and the lessons she learned from Gandhi. She writes about her struggles with ego and attachment, and how she found peace and purpose through her service to others. Overall, The Spirit's Pilgrimage is a moving and inspiring memoir that offers a unique perspective on India's struggle for independence and the power of spiritual transformation.”-Print ed.
Not-So-Great Presidents: Commanders in Chief (Epic Fails #3)
by Erik Slader Ben ThompsonFrom heroic George Washington to the dastardly Richard Nixon, the oval office has been occupied by larger-than-life personalities since 1789. The position comes with enormous power and responsibility, and every American president thus far has managed to achieve great things. However, the President of the United States is only human—and oftentimes far from perfect. While some men suffered through only minor mishaps during their time in office, others are famously remembered for leaving behind much bigger messes.In the third installment of the Epic Fails series, authors Erik Slader and Ben Thompson, and artist Tim Foley, take readers on another hilarious ride, exploring the lives, legacies, and failures of some of America’s commanders in chief.
Medical Terminology Doodles
by Karen SladykToday's students have expressed a strong preference for multiple modes of information delivery, including visual, auditory and kinesthetic. Medical Terminology Doodles by Dr. Karen Sladyk is a unique book based on evidence that suggests that a multi-sensory approach that includes doodling can promote better knowledge retention than traditional methods in learning medical terminology.Medical Terminology Doodles offers 266 of the most common medical terms to explore and learn through doodling. By drawing or doodling related images, students will create permanent connections between the brain and the terms, as well as their root words, prefixes, and suffixes. Study hints, spelling hints, and sample illustrations are offered for each of the words, but students are also encouraged to personalize their learning by assigning meaning to the terms and creating their own “art.” Using visual cues to remember information will encourage students to review the material at hand and will also help them understand the way that terms connect to larger medical concepts. Medical Terminology Doodles is a must-have for students looking for a unique manner in which to engage with complicated scientific material. On the road to becoming a successful practitioner in the health professions, you can never underestimate the power of a doodle!
Ryan's Occupational Therapy Assistant: Principles, Practice Issues, and Techniques
by Karen SladykA renowned and cornerstone text for the occupational therapy assistant for more than 30 years is now available in an updated Fifth Edition. Continuing with a student-friendly format, the classic Ryan’s Occupational Therapy Assistant: Principles, Practice Issues, and Techniquescontinues to keep pace with the latest developments in occupational therapy, including the integration of key concepts from key documents for the occupational therapy profession, such as: AOTA’s Occupational Therapy Practice Framework, Third Edition ACOTE Standards Code of Ethics and Ethics Standards Guidelines for Supervision, Roles, and Responsibilities During the Delivery of Occupational Therapy Services Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) Building on the legacy work of Sally E. Ryan, Dr. Karen Sladyk presents more than 45 chapters in the Fifth Edition of Ryan’s Occupational Therapy Assistant. Using actual client examples, occupational therapy assistant (OTA) students are guided throughout the process of learning various principles and disabilities to applying that knowledge in a clinical setting. What is new inside the Fifth Edition: Two new chapters included in the Occupations and Disabilities section on Downs syndrome and diabetes and bipolar disorder Updates of each chapter throughout New evidence-based practice and supportive research throughout New color interior design throughout Updated references throughout Included with the text are online supplemental materials for faculty use in the classroom. Ryan’s Occupational Therapy Assistant, Fifth Edition includes a variety of treatment techniques that help students understand how to choose and when to implement certain procedures. Group intervention, assistive technology and adaptive equipment, basic splinting, wellness and health promotion, and work injury activities are examples of the techniques presented. This Fifth Edition also includes specific chapters about evidence-based practice and understanding research. Chapters on supervision, functional ethics, and professional development are examples geared toward educating OTA students on how to manage different aspects of their early career. A core text for students aspiring to become successful OTAs for more than 30 years, Ryan’s Occupational Therapy Assistant: Principles, Practice Issues, and Techniques, Fifth Edition is the leading textbook to have throughout one’s education and early career.
Great Scenes for Young Actors (Great Scenes For Young Actors Ser. #Vol. Ii)
by Craig Slaight Jack SharrarA collection of scenes by such contemporary authors and playwrights as Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller, Nathaniel West, Horton Foote, and Paul Zindel.
Great Scenes For Young Actors From The Stage (Young Actors Ser.)
by Craig Slaight Jack SharrarGreat Scenes for Young Actors (Young Actors Series)
From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia
by Dan Slater Joseph WongWhy some of Asia’s authoritarian regimes have democratized as they have grown richer—and why others haven’tOver the past century, Asia has been transformed by rapid economic growth, industrialization, and urbanization—a spectacular record of development that has turned one of the world’s poorest regions into one of its richest. Yet Asia’s record of democratization has been much more uneven, despite the global correlation between development and democracy. Why have some Asian countries become more democratic as they have grown richer, while others—most notably China—haven’t? In From Development to Democracy, Dan Slater and Joseph Wong offer a sweeping and original answer to this crucial question.Slater and Wong demonstrate that Asia defies the conventional expectation that authoritarian regimes concede democratization only as a last resort, during times of weakness. Instead, Asian dictators have pursued democratic reforms as a proactive strategy to revitalize their power from a position of strength. Of central importance is whether authoritarians are confident of victory and stability. In Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan these factors fostered democracy through strength, while democratic experiments in Indonesia, Thailand, and Myanmar were less successful and more reversible. At the same time, resistance to democratic reforms has proven intractable in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, Vietnam, and Cambodia. Reconsidering China’s 1989 crackdown, Slater and Wong argue that it was the action of a regime too weak to concede, not too strong to fail, and they explain why China can allow democracy without inviting instability.The result is a comprehensive regional history that offers important new insights about when and how democratic transitions happen—and what the future of Asia might be.
Intuicion
by Jennis SlaughterEn la secuela de Intuición, Delaney y Raelin Delacroix su pasado ha regresado para perseguirlas, pero no de la forma que esperaban. ¿Quién se enfada con la pareja de recién casados? ¿Son los familiares los que sienten que merecen parte de la buena suerte o alguien a quien extrañaron durante el cierre del caso de trata de personas? ¿Las Líneas Ley de Montrose les avisarán lo suficiente para que puedan protegerse a sí mismos y a sus amigos o guardarán silencio, dejando que los Delacroix resuelvan las cosas por sí solos? ¿Quién se enfada con ellas? ¿Es alguien a quien extrañaron durante el cierre del caso de trata de personas o es algo más siniestro?
The Story of Original Loss: Grieving Existential Trauma in the Arts and the Art of Psychoanalysis (Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis Book Series)
by Malcolm Owen Slavin, PhDThis book explores the universal human existential trauma of "original loss," a trauma the author describes as arising from our primal, human evolutionary loss of experiencing ourselves as innately belonging to, and instinctively at home within, the larger natural world.In this trauma arose our existential awareness of impermanence and mortality along with the need to mourn that loss in order to create a sense of belonging and identity. The book describes how the invention of art and group ritual became the collective ways we mourn our shared existential loss. It describes as well how it is the art within the psychoanalytic practice that enables both patient and analyst to grieve their individual versions of our shared original loss. Drawing on the work of Winnicott, Loewald and Ogden, as well as art theory and religion, this book offers a new perspective on the intersection of metaphorical artistic thinking and psychoanalysis.This book will appeal to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and scholars of poetic, visual and muscial metaphor, creativity, evolution and history of art.
Closest of Strangers: Liberalism And The Politics Of Race In New York
by Jim Sleeper"In this study of race relations in N.Y.C., Sleeper, an editorial writer for New York Newsday, harshly criticizes both black leaders and their liberal supporters for pointing a finger at America's racist society rather than setting concrete goals to overcome inequality." —Kirkus Reviews A report of the current state of race relations in New York City, which examines the differing views of militants, liberals and forgotten minorities, and presents suggestions for racial common sense that attempt to demolish long-standing stereotypes.
Break My Rules: A Novel (The Oxford Legacy #2)
by Roxy Sloane'Oxford, England. The city of dreaming spires, dark secrets... And desire.'From USA Today bestselling author Roxy Sloane comes the second installment in the blazing hot dark academia romance trilogy from - perfect for fans of Ana Huang. Emily McIntire, and Lauren Asher! The man I trusted might be the monster I’ve been hunting for… I came to Oxford to uncover dark secrets, but instead, I found desire. Anthony St. Clair. The future Duke of Ashford. He’s shown me a sensual pleasure I never dreamed was possible, but now I don’t know who to trust. Is he the saint who will protect me? Or the sinner who will be the death of me?
Cross My Heart: A Novel (The Oxford Legacy #1)
by Roxy SloaneWelcome to the blazing hot dark academia romance trilogy from USA Today bestselling author Roxy Sloane—perfect for fans of Ana Huang. Emily McIntire, and Lauren Asher! "Oxford, England. The city of dreaming spires, dark secrets... And desire."Anthony St. Clair. The future Duke of Ashford. A reckless enigma… and my greatest temptation.I've come here, to Oxford University, on a mission—to uncover the truth about what happened to my sister—no matter the cost. Until I meet him...Saint is my passport to a sensual world of wealth and privilege, but something wicked is lurking behind these ivy covered walls. Secrets these people will kill to protect.Loyalty is everything to them… but will it be my ruin?
Seal My Fate: A Novel (The Oxford Legacy #3)
by Roxy Sloane'Oxford, England. The city of dreaming spires, dark secrets... And desire.'Discover the thrilling final book in the blazing hot dark academia romance trilogy from USA Today bestselling author Roxy Sloane - perfect for fans of Ana Huang, Emily McIntire, and Lauren Asher! I came to Oxford to avenge my sister, but instead, I found a web of lies. Ancient loyalties. Fortunes built on sin. Riches they’d do anything to protect. I’m the one who could bring their empires crashing down. But can I destroy the man I love? Time is running out…
He Came with the Couch
by David SlonimThe bestselling classic is now in paperback!When Sophie's family purchases a new couch, they get something they never expected. An original adventure that's both zany and tender, He Came with The Couch is silly, sweet, and hilarious good fun!GOOD FUN: This is a simple, fun story that is a silly read for the whole family!A CLASSIC BOOK: For fans of classic picture books as well as modern tales of fun, this book has humor for everyone.A FRIEND FOR THE AGES: Every child will want a friend and protector like the one Sophie has, instilling and cementing the power of friendship and good surprises. You never know what you’ll get when you get a new couch!Perfect for: parents and grandparents, educators, librarians
The Amp It Up Fieldbook: A Guide for Leaders, Teams, and Facilitators
by Frank SlootmanHyper scale your organization with practical prompts and exercisesSnowflake's chairman and former CEO Frank Slootman, one of Silicon Valley’s most respected figures in tech leadership, has penned the Amp It Up Fieldbook to help leaders grow any organization by challenging the status quo every day, getting used to making conflicted trade-offs, avoiding incrementalism, refocusing resources to the only places where they count, and being uncompromisingly objective. Building on Slootman’s wildly successful book, Amp It Up, this fieldbook helps readers easily apply his conceptual first principles, mindsets, and tactical advice to their own organizations and careers. Readers will learn about: How to align people around first principles that guide change and execute with urgency and intensity every day Maximizing growth and scale without making expensive changes to talent, structure, or fundamental business models The three essential characteristics of great mission statements, and why Slootman chose Snowflake’s current mission statement, broken down word-by-word How to identify personal blind spots that keep us from achieving our best With firsthand insight gleaned from Slootman’s personal experience over three decades of building hyper-growth companies, the Amp It Up Fieldbook earns a well-deserved spot on the bookshelves of leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs looking to take their organizations and careers to the next level.
Out of the World (Cultural Memory in the Present)
by Peter SloterdijkIn this essential early work, the preeminent European philosopher Peter Sloterdijk offers a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary meditation on humanity's tendency to refuse the world. Developing the first seeds of his anthropotechnics, Sloterdijk theorizes consciousness as a medium, tuned and retuned over the course of technological and social history. His subject here is the "world-alien" (Weltfremdheit) in man that was formerly institutionalized in religions, but is increasingly dealt with in modern times through practices of psychotherapy. Originally written in 1993, this almost clairvoyant work examines how humans seek escape from the world in cross-cultural and historical context, up to the mania and world-escapism of our cybernetic network culture. Chapters delve into artificial habitats and forms of intoxication, from early Christian desert monks to pharmaco-theology through psychedelics. In classic form, Sloterdijk recalibrates and reinvents concepts from the ancient Greeks to Heidegger to develop an astonishingly contemporary philosophical anthropology.
The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head: A Psychiatrist's Stories of His Most Bizarre Cases
by Gary Small MD Gigi Vorgan“Stories of human behavior at its most extreme….With humor, compassion, empathy, and insight, Small searches for and finds the humanity that lies hidden under even the most bizarre symptoms.”—Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive and A Whole New MindA psychiatrist’s stories of his most bizarre cases, The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head by Gary Small, M.D., and Gigi Vorgan—co-authors of The Memory Bible—offers a fascinating and highly entertaining look into the peculiarities of the human mind. In the vein of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Awakenings, and the other bestselling works of Oliver Sacks, The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head surprises, enthralls, and illuminates as it focuses on medical mysteries that would stump and amaze the brilliant brains on House, M.D.
Token Supremacy: The Art of Finance, the Finance of Art, and the Great Crypto Crash of 2022
by Zachary SmallA New York Times investigative reporter wades into the murky, pixelated waters of the multibillion-dollar NFT market—the virtual casino that sprang up overnight in 2020 and came crashing down, with all its celebrity hucksters, just two years later. A vibrant and witty exploration of the increasingly blurry line between art and money, artist and con artist, value and worthlessness.&“A perfect book to understand and to laugh at the craziness of the art world today." —Jerry Saltz, author of How to Be an ArtistIn 2021, when the gavel fell at Christie&’s on the sale of Mike Winkelmann&’s Everydays series—a compilation of five thousand digital artworks—it made a thunderous announcement: Non-fungible tokens had arrived. The ludicrous world of CryptoKitties and Bored Apes had just produced a piece of art worth $69.3 million (at least according to the highest bidder). On that day, the traditional art market—the largest unregulated market in the world—put its stamp of approval on a very new and carnivalesque digital reality. But what did it mean for these two worlds to collide? Was it all just a money laundering scheme? And come on, what was that piece of digital flotsam really worth anyway?In Token Supremacy, Zachary Small works through these and other fascinating questions, tracing the crypto economy back to its origins in the 2008 financial crisis and the lineage of NFTs back to the first photographic negatives. Small describes jaw-dropping tales of heists, publicity stunts, and rug pulls, before zeroing in on the role of "security tokens" in the FTX scandal. Detours through art history provide insight into the mythmaking tactics that drive stratospheric auction sales and help the wealthy launder their finances (and reputations) through art. And we cast an eye toward a future where NFTs have paved the way for a dangerous, new shadow banking system.A wild and spellbinding tour through a world that strains belief.
The Forbidden Greek (The Greek Groom Swap #1)
by Michelle SmartWhen the Greek billionaire is isolated with the last woman he should ever want, it&’s only a matter of time until their chemistry combusts… Enjoy this powerful forbidden, forced-proximity romance by Michelle Smart.He wants…what he can&’t have. The last person Greek billionaire Leander Liassidis wants to see is Kate Hawkins. He even abandoned his convenient wedding to escape his forbidden attraction to her. She&’s infuriating, irresistible…and on the doorstep of his Californian mansion! Maid of honor Kate knows she&’ll have her work cut out for her bringing Leander back to the altar. She doesn&’t expect the need blazing in his gaze—or the explosive connection it ignites. Kate knows that giving in to their desire would be unforgivable. But could she ever forgive herself if she walked away from a bond this powerful?From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds.Read all The Greek Groom Swap books: Book 1: The Forbidden Greek by Michelle SmartBook 2: Greek's Temporary "I Do" by Pippa Roscoe
Process Mining Workshops: ICPM 2023 International Workshops, Rome, Italy, October 23–27, 2023, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #503)
by Johannes De Smedt Pnina SofferThis volume constitutes the revised selected papers of several workshops which were held in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Process Mining, ICPM 2023, held in Rome, Italy, in October 23–27, 2023.The 38 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions. The book also contains one invited talk. ICPM 2023 presented the following six workshops:– 4th International Workshop on Event Data and Behavioral Analytics (EdbA)– 4th International Workshop on Leveraging Machine Learning in Process Mining (ML4PM)– 6th International Workshop on Process-Oriented Data Science for Healthcare (PODS4H)– 8th International Workshop on Process Querying, Manipulation, and Intelligence (PQMI)– 2nd International Workshop on Education Meets Process Mining (EduPM)– 2nd International Workshop on Collaboration Mining for Distributed Systems (COMINDS).
Follow the Roar: Tailing Tiger for All 604 Holes of His Most Spectacular Season
by Bob SmileyWith his career at a standstill and his golf game a shadow of its former mediocrity, TV writer and ESPN.com contributor Bob Smiley decided the time had come to turn to the one person who might be able to help: Tiger Woods. So, in January of 2008, Smiley set out to follow the game's greatest player from the gallery for every hole of an entire season and to absorb all that he could.Smiley traveled from the seaside cliffs of San Diego to the deserts of Dubai, through the hallowed gates of Augusta National, and on to arguably the greatest U.S. Open of all time back at Torrey Pines, where, in a legendary duel with charismatic journeyman Rocco Mediate, Woods won his fourteenth major—on one leg.Smiley chronicles every dramatic and often hysterical moment of his journey with Tiger, including his off-course run-ins with Arabian sandstorms, ex-con ticket scalpers, and the motley assortment of strangers who became friends along the way.Told from the perspective of a true golf fan, Follow the Roar is a once-in-a-lifetime adventure through the most spectacular and inspiring season in Tiger Woods's celebrated career. In addition to the thrill of witnessing all 604 holes Woods played in '08, Smiley found in Tiger both inspiration and the gutsy embodiment of what it really means to be an athlete—and a man.
What Happens Next?: Newsroom Nonsense (What Happens Next?)
by Jess Smart SmileyIn the third volume of the What Happens Next? graphic novel series, YOU decide whether Sunbright Middle School’s student newspaper is a hit— or if Megan and her friends will have to stop the presses forever!Megan Hathaway was supposed to be helping put together a newspaper for her English class...but everything is going wrong.Weird Randall keeps trying to mail potatoes, evil Vice-Principal Mr. Fisher has imprisoned the class's best artist, and...oh geez...Olivia just yarked in a trombone! Can you help Megan save school journalism?! Or will you let Sunbright Middle School's secrets remain hidden forever?!With more than twenty-five different endings, Newsroom Nonsense is a breaking news saga you’ll be coming back to over and over.
Case of a Lifetime: A Criminal Defense Lawyer's Story
by Abbe SmithA recent study estimates that thousands of innocent people are wrongfully imprisoned each year in the United States. Some are exonerated through DNA evidence, but many more languish in prison because their convictions were based on faulty eyewitness accounts and no DNA is available. Prominent criminal lawyer and law professor Abbe Smith weaves together real life cases to show what it is like to champion the rights of the accused. Smith describes the moral and ethical dilemmas of representing the guilty and the weighty burden of fighting for the innocent, including the victorious story of how she helped free a woman wrongly imprisoned for nearly three decades.For fans of Law and Order and investigative news programs like 20/20, Case of a Lifetime is a chilling look at what really determines a person's innocence.
Tales of a Tiny Traveller
by Ashlea SmithJoin a young girl’s adventures across the Australian landscape in this enchanting tale. As she travels, incredible animals and fairy friends cross her path, teaching special tricks and secrets of the natural world. Experience hair-raising escapades like her survival of a flood teeming with saltwater crocodiles. This story explores how a young girl leads a free-range childhood, overcomes challenging events, builds a sense of belonging, and creates an understanding of the world.
Theatre and Global Development: Performing Partnerships
by Bobby SmithHow do theatre and development partnerships operate? What issues impede collaborations between various institutions and individuals? Why do relations between global North and South partners often fail to reflect important values such as equality, reciprocity and mutual benefit? This is the first book to examine theatre and global development partnerships. It focusses on the UK and East African countries of Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda, presenting the author’s own experiences, case study analyses and perspectives from practitioners and scholars involved in theatre and development. It argues that simplistic binaries pervade partnerships, whereby the global North is regarded as ‘modern’ and ‘developed’ versus the ‘under-developed’ global South. This results in unequal power relations between collaborators, less effective projects with communities, and a lack of reciprocity and mutual benefit. Consequently, this book revitalises how we conceptualise partnerships. Issues such as widening inequalities, conflict, health and the climate crisis impact all countries. How, then, can we work across borders to support interconnected learning and action on these challenges? In this regard, principles of solidarity and mutual responsibility, as well as critical openness, enable us to reflect honestly about the failures of the partnerships we participate in and move beyond simplistic binaries of global North and South. The book is of importance to applied and socially engaged performance scholars and practitioners, and to development workers interested in arts and social change.