Shorter

Author: Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781541797970
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
"The idea of success embraced by the global economy means being always-on, never missing an opportunity, and outworking your peers. But working ever-longer hours isn't sustainable for companies or individuals. Fatigue-induced mistakes, whether in the operating room or factory line or trading floor, costs companies billions, and overwork alienates and burns out valuable workers. Yet as destructive as it is, the logic of modern capitalism demands that we work longer hours, and forever push ourselves to work even more. But what if there is another way? Shorter tells the story of entrepreneurs and leaders all over the world who find that by eliminating distractions, reducing inefficiencies, and carving out time for highly focused work and high-quality collaboration, they can make their businesses more productive, profitable, creative, and sustainable. Shorter days also empower workers and improve their work-life balance; improve company recruitment and retention; and make leaders more thoughtful and decisive. They show the way to a future of work that is more efficient, sustainable, and humane.Using design thinking, a business and product development process pioneered in Silicon Valley, futurist and consultant Alex Pang creates a step-by-step guide for readers to redesign their workdays-from reimagining the workday to designing initial trials, shortening meetings, streamlining communication, measuring the results, and selling the idea to investors and clients. He tells the story of this emerging global movement, the companies that are leading, it, and how readers can join it"--

Shorter Book of Blessings

Author: International Commission on English in the Liturgy
Publisher: Catholic Book Publishing
ISBN: 9780899425665
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Shorter Book of Blessings from Catholic Book, Publishing is a handy-size edition of the larger Book, of Blessings that includes only the blessings that are, celebrated outside Mass. It contains the New American, Bible translation for all Scripture readings to ensure, conformity with the Catholic liturgical Lectionary. This handy liturgical resource from Catholic Book, Publishing is printed in two colors, with each blessing, set in easy-to-read sense lines and carefully arranged, for the celebrant. The Shorter Book of Blessings is, elegantly bound in black gold-stamped bonded leather.

Footprints

Author: Michelle Mercer
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781585424689
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
Saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter has not only left his footprints on our musical terrain, he has created a body of work that is a monument to artistic imagination. Throughout Shorter's extraordinary fifty-year career, his compositions have helped define the sounds of each distinct era in the history of jazz. Filled with musical analysis by Mercer, enlivened by Shorter's vivid recollections, and enriched by more than seventy-five original interviews with his friends and associates, this book is at once an invaluable history of music from bebop to pop, an intimate and moving biography, and a story of a man's struggle toward the full realization of his gifts and of himself.

That's Not My Taller and Shorter

Author: Fiona Watt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781474928922
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 10

Book Description
A cute board book for little children that's all about big and little, explaining the concept of height through a story about animals each taller than the last.

We Will Dance Our Truth

Author: David Delgado Shorter
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803226462
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 390

Book Description
In this innovative, performative approach to the expressive culture of the Yaqui (Yoeme) peoples of the Sonora and Arizona borderlands, David Delgado Shorter provides an altogether fresh understanding of Yoeme worldviews. Based on extensive field study, Shorter's interpretation of the community's ceremonies and oral traditions as forms of "historical inscription" reveals new meanings of their legends of the Talking Tree, their narrative of myth-and-history known as the Testamento, their fabled deer dances, funerary rites, and church processions.

Book of Blessings

Author: International Commission On English In The Liturgy
Publisher: Catholic Book Publishing
ISBN: 9780899425603
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Book of Blessings from Catholic Book Publishing, contains the blessings of the Roman Ritual for the, Universal Church as well as additional proper blessings, for use in the United States. This liturgical book, includes blessings pertaining to persons, to objects, and to various occasions, as well as blessings and, services connected with official parish events. Three, valuable indices make the Book of Blessings a practical, as well as pastoral liturgical resource. The Book of, Blessings from Catholic Book Publishing is set in, highly readable 14-pt. type and is durably bound in, brown cloth to ensure long-lasting use.

My Marathon

Author: Frank Shorter
Publisher: Rodale
ISBN: 1623367247
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
My Marathon: Reflections on a Gold Medal Life is a revealing memoir by Frank Shorter, the father of American distance running. After winning the 1969 NCAA title in the 10,000-meters title during his senior year at Yale, Shorter went on to win a staggering 24 national titles on track, road, and cross country courses, but it was in the marathon that Shorter achieved his greatest fame and recognition. At the 1972 Munich Games, Shorter won the Olympic marathon finishing more than 2 minutes ahead of the second-place finisher. Four years later, he finished a controversial second in the Olympic marathon in Montreal. The controversy, still unresolved to this day, revolved around the East German "winner" being a possible drug cheat. Shorter later founded the United States Anti-Doping Agency. Written with noted sportswriter John Brant, My Marathon details these inspiring events, as well as the physical and emotional abuse Shorter suffered as a child. This inspiring memoir is a testament to the resiliency of the human spirit and the transformative power of sports.

A Shorter Commentary on Romans

Author: Karl Barth
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754657576
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
This reissue of Barth's A Shorter Commentary on Romans links to the renewed interest today in a 'theological' interpretation of Scripture. In response to the modern preoccupation with what lies behind the text (the author's context), and to a postmodern preoccupation with what lies in front of the text (the reader's context), both theologians and biblical scholars are asking the following questions: 'What is the relationship between the biblical text, interpreter and God?' 'Can the Bible be read both as an historical document and as a text that speaks to us today, and if so, how can it do so?' Barth's commentarial practice as exemplified in A Shorter Commentary on Romans answers these questions.This book is presented in two parts: first, an introduction by Maico Michielin helping readers understand Barth's theological exegetical approach to interpreting Scripture and showing readers how to let Scripture address theological and ethical concerns for today; the main body of the book then follows - the republication of the original English translation by D.H. van Daalen of Barth's A Shorter Commentary on Romans.

Reconsidering Elizabeth Bowen’s Shorter Fiction

Author: Heather Levy
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793628181
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 157

Book Description
Reconsidering Elizabeth Bowen’s Shorter Fiction: Dead Reckoning focuses on Elizabeth Bowen's representations of violence against the self and others. Heather Levy examines the complicity of landscape and the implications of mayhem, murder, and suicide in The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen (2006) edited by Angus Wilson and The Bazaar and Other Stories (2008) edited by Alan Hepburn. It introduces five previously unpublished short story fragments and two nearly complete stories from The Elizabeth Bowen Collection at The Harry Ransom Research Center. Levy argues that Bowen's shorter fiction is a quixotic celebration of moral transgression, crime without punishment, and suicide without mourners. Bowen's compassionate response to offenders and violence anticipated the Perpetrator Trauma movement in the United States. Her innovations with the freedom of the short story produced an uncanny narration of violence. This book integrates the entirety of the scholarship on Bowen's short stories in a clear and original manner and offers a synthetic and compelling excavation of Bowen's unpublished short stories.

The Shorter Novels of Charles Dickens

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781840220599
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1354

Book Description
A collection which brings together perhaps the four finest of Charles Dickens' shorter novels, filled with event, character, and the brilliance of his story-telling.