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Is the world ready for nuclear Jihad?Showdown with Nuclear Iran is a gripping and detailed exposé of Iran's relentless pursuit of atomic weapons and its apocalyptic goal of wiping Israel off the face of the earth. Michael D. Evans, who has been working in the Middle East for the last three decades, cuts through the official lies an ddeceptions of the Iranian government and reveals in terrifying detail:how close the radical Islamic republic is to fulfilling its nuclear ambitionshow Iran's president believes he has a divine mission to destroy Israel and cripple the United States in a nuclear holocaustand what America must do to avert this global disasterWith the Middle East poised at the brink, Showdown with Nuclear Iran provides much-needed perspective on the current crisis and the dire threat that a nuclear Iran poses to the existence of Israel and global stability."The most detailed account of the Iranian regime's determination, policy, and plan to acquire military nuclear capabilities. Mike Evans delves into the roots of the Iranian revolution and explores Iranian history to better understand a major challenge to the western world. he compellingly analyzes policy options for confronting this threat." ?Lt. Gen. Moshe Ya'Alon, red., former Chief of Staff, Israeli Defense Force
Disabilities Stink...Life gives everybody things they can't control. Sometimes, even the most capable and productive people hit against a personal limitation and get discouraged over things they can't do. With some of us, it can be something relatively small, like aches and pains that limit ability to play with our grandchildren, small disappointments. For others, the barriers and hurdles may be much more substantial.So what do you do when life hands you a major setback? Do you quit, sink into despair and wait for something good to happen to get you past the depression? This book offers practical help.Dr. Michael LeBow knows intimately the challenges of despair-but more than that- in Overcoming Disabilities Despair he reveals a systematic approach using Cognitive Therapy to rise above, attack and defeat the disabilities despair that can block us from effective happy living. While light-heartedly sharing some of his own stories of frustration, Dr. LeBow walks us through practical systematic tools and procedures to reclaim optimism
The Teenager's Guide to Understanding & Managing Weight
Michael D LeBow
Science Humanities Press
2012
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Michael D. LeBow, PhD.is a clinical psychologist and professor of psychology. One of his specialties is helping overweight and extremely overweight people. But of course, long before he learned how to do that, he had to finish high school. Harsh years for him. Harsh, because in high school he was extremely heavy, and this very visible fact unleashed a horde of weight bullies. They were often slim or muscular teenagers who acted as if they had license to regularly belittle, torment, and tease. Weight bullies enjoyed hurting. Like them, but not intent on damaging, were the weight blamers. They could be teenagers but usually were adults-family members, teachers and doctors. Blamers freely advised Michael to stop being so weak and to stop being such a glutton in order to stop being so fat. Some even promoted their favorite "obesity cures," pseudo-remedies that varied from worthless to harmful.Over the years, Dr. LeBow has tried to uncover answers to the weight puzzle confronting teenagers. He has written this book for you, a teenager who needs, not criticism, but practical information: -what "too heavy" really means and how it is measured -why some teenagers become too heavy and some do not-where online is the best advice on eating smarter and moving more -what drives weight bullying and what to do about weight bullies-how to uncover personally troublesome places involving eating-eating hotspots -how to train the brain to be satisfied with smaller portions and fewer helpings -how to become active for at least 60 min a day, and earn money for doing so-why it's important to talk to a doctor before trying to manage weight-how to accept responsibility for managing weight-how to be upbeat about who you are-how to lose overweight without losing any weight-how to avoid the 10 snakes of weight mismanagement-and much much more...
Elementary School Scheduling
Michael D. Rettig; Robert Lynn Canady
Eye On Education, Inc
2008
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This practical book and its accompanying downloadable resources include over 100 schedules to help elementary schools raise student achievement.
Tree Of Wisdom is a heart felt story that outlines the trials and tribulations of a young man and his family.
This full-color book provides a compendium of stimulating facts about the states, presented graphically, and covering a wide array of topics including demographic, economic, environmental, health, and crime variables. Hundreds of attributes are compared side-by-side, from life expectancy to murder rates; from fourth-grade math proficiency scores to the number of food stamp recipients, and from illicit drug use to the rate of firearm background checks per state. Through meticulous organization and use of graphic formats, retrieval of specific information the reader may seek has been greatly facilitated. In addition to the graphs comparing the fifty states for each individual metric, a summary table is provided at the beginning of each chapter along with highlights of pertinent data found in the chapter. While we are one, indivisible nation, at the same time Americans are as diverse from state-to-state as many nations are when compared with other nations. For example: in 2010, 95 percent of Vermont residents were white compared with only 24 percent of residents in Hawaii and 1-in-12 New York residents were Jewish compared with less than 1-in-1,000 Arkansas residents. In Texas, 464 prisoners have been executed over the past 35 years while 16 states have not executed any. More interesting facts found in ranking America's Fifty States include: ·Alaska ranked highest or lowest in 31 metrics—more than any other state—followed by Mississippi at 25 and Texas at 20. ·Alaska is the only state that does not have a state income tax or a state sales tax. It had the highest revenues per capita from taxes levied on businesses for the extraction of oil and gas and receives the highest federal aid per capita. Alaska had the lowest percent of households with annual income below $15,000. ·Over the past decade, over 100 million firearms background checks have been performed nationally, with the highest rate in Utah and the lowest rate in New Jersey ·Mississippi had the lowest personal income per capita, median household income, gross domestic product per capita, and lowest male life expectancy rate. Additionally, it had the highest food stamp recipient rate, rate of persons below the poverty level, and infant mortality rate. ·Florida had the highest rate of identity theft victims in 2010 followed by Arizona, California, and Georgia. ·Texas had the most extreme environmental metrics including the highest major disaster, storm, and wildfire emergency declarations. Texas also had the highest summer air temperature and carbon dioxide emissions level. In addition to extreme environmental metrics, Texas also had the highest property crime rate and high school dropout rate.
How does the United States compare when objectively measured shoulder-to-shoulder against the world’s two most influential autocracies? This full-color book provides a solid foundation to enable the reader to create informed opinions about China, Russia, and the United States through comparative examination of their global status and the quality of their peoples’ lives. Data resources—created by many respected organizations including the World Bank, the United Nations, the Center for Disease Control (CDC), and Freedom House, to name a few—have been mined to provide direct comparisons between many key characteristics including health, wealth, poverty, education, employment, crime, imprisonments, freedoms, happiness, natural resources, infrastructure, debt, taxes, trade, military assets, and nuclear warheads. It is the author’s mission to present meaningful data—all with attributed sources—in an inviting, graphic format to convey much more information than would be possible in tabular form. By directly displaying data the usual biases and filters are bypassed enhancing your ability to draw your own conclusions. This visual approach very effectively reveals trends and makes differences between nations and their people self-evident. In the United States (2016): ·64,100 people died of drug overdose and 2.2 million people were in prisons ·The top twenty percent of households received 51.5 percent of all income ·1.2 trillion dollars were added to debt and 241 billion was paid in interest ·Foreigners held one-third of federal debt including 1.1 trillion by China In comparison with the United States Russia had: ·12.5 years lower life expectancy for males born in 2016 (only 65.0 years) ·Double the homicide rate and 40 percent higher suicide rate ·60 percent higher alcohol consumption per capita ·An economy one-fifth as large, measured by GDP in international dollars ·Equivalent number of nuclear warheads (approximately 7,000) ·Double the crude oil reserves and five times the natural gas reserves ·Repressive government—rated within the worst 10 percent by Freedom House ·14 times as many residents (67,000) seeking asylum In comparison with the United States China had: ·An economy 15 percent larger, measured by GDP in international dollars ·Three times as many patent applications filed by residents ·One-fifth the homicide rate and one-half the poverty rate ·58 percent more outbound international tourists ·61 points higher scores in mathematics literacy for students aged 15 years ·Double the total carbon dioxide emissions ·Repressive government—rated within the worst 10 percent by Freedom House ·44 times as many residents (212,000) seeking asylum
Break Free From Ordinary Business Leadership HOW DO YOU LEAD YOUR BUSINESS? No two companies operate the same way and neither should their styles of leadership. Unfortunately, many corporations use the same leadership methodologies and are afraid of deviating from the status quo. Business partners MICHAEL D. NOVAKOSKI and JOHN M. PARKER of Elzinga & Volkers, a Michigan-based construction company, believed a different way was possible. In their book, Become Unmistakable: Start the Journey from Commodity to Oddity, Novakoski and Parker examine how business leaders can tap into their “right-brained leadership” to foster a creative and employee-centric culture. This book will show you how changing your leadership perspective and moving away from the commodity mindset can reap immeasurable benefits to your business.
Hate Going To The Dentist? Dr. Michael Carpenter is passionate about changing the way people think about dentistry. In Dentistry That Doesn’t Bite, Dr. Carpenter reveals what happened to ignite this passion and how he’s turned dreaded dental appointments into visits patients actually look forward to. His book takes over twenty years of knowledge and experience in the dental field and simplifies it to help you and your family make the best decisions for your oral health through every stage of life.
Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems
Michael D. Ekstrand; John T. Riedl; Joseph A. Konstan
now publishers Inc
2011
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Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems discusses a wide variety of the recommender choices available and their implications, providing both practitioners and researchers with an introduction to the important issues underlying recommenders and current best practices for addressing these issues.Recommender systems are an important part of the information and e-commerce ecosystem. They represent a powerful method for enabling users to filter through large information and product spaces. Nearly two decades of research on collaborative filtering have led to a varied set of algorithms and a rich collection of tools for evaluating their performance. Research in the field is moving in the direction of a richer understanding of how recommender technology may be embedded in specific domains.The differing personalities exhibited by different recommender algorithms show that recommendation is not a one-size-fits-all problem. Specific tasks, information needs, and item domains represent unique problems for recommenders, and design and evaluation of recommenders needs to be done based on the user tasks to be supported. Effective deployments must begin with careful analysis of prospective users and their goals. Based on this analysis, system designers have a host of options for the choice of algorithm and for its embedding in the surrounding user experience.This paper discusses a wide variety of the choices available and their implications, aiming to provide both practicioners and researchers with an introduction to the important issues underlying recommenders and current best practices for addressing these issues.
Is the church-age believer obligated to obey the Old Testament Law? Should we observe Sunday as the Christian Sabbath? What about tithing? In this short book, Halsey tackles these questions and more. Laying Down the Law treats the believer's relationship to the Law with thoroughness, using an abundance of illustrations to make what could have been a dry treatise into an interesting read. His conclusions are spot on. This book should be helpful for the serious believer seeking to lead a more godly life.
GOD'S PRINCIPLES OF PROSPERITY GOD WANTS YOU TO PROSPER "Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospers." 3 John 2 In today's tough economic times, many people, including God's people are searching for sound financial advice to get themselves out of financial hardship. Many of God's people know the principles of the Bible that concern finances, but many are unaware of how they relate to their own financial life. In his life changing book God's Principles of Prosperity, Rev. Michael D. Light, discusses the problems plaguing our finances, and he explains the principles supplied by God, to "Break the Bondage of Debt", because you owe it to God, yourself and to your family to be your maximum for the Kingdom of God. Rev. Michael Light is the co-founder and director of Lights of Glory Ministries Inc. in Merrillville, Indiana. He has over 20 years of experience on the fields of management, sales and the financial services sector, coupled with a thriving ministry for the Lord, enables Rev. Light and his wife, Min. Loretta to continue towards their one vision and one mission- World Evangelism, preaching and teaching the Word of God. The Lord has blessed the Light with a marriage of over 23 years, and they are the parents of 3 children and 3 grandchildren and currently reside in Merrillville, In. Their marriage and family serves as a testimony to God's greatness and as a foundation for their ministry.
Love, can sometimes feel good, and sometimes can cause some heartache and pain.In this book you will discover them both. Love can have its ups and downs with friends, family, and intimate relationships and marriages. After discovering that, sometimes that's how it goes. It can be a learning experience for everyone. It's not always smooth. There will be tough times, but with love and understanding, you can overcome the obstacles that can damage your love.So don't be afraid to sit down, grab a pillow and talk about it - Love
For decades, landscape architecture was driven solely by artistic sensibilities. But in these times of global change, the opportunity to reshape the World comes with a responsibility to consider how it can be resilient, fostering health and vitality for humans and nature. Landscape Architecture Theory re-examines the fundamentals of the field, offering a new approach to landscape design. Drawing on his extensive career in teaching and practice, Michael Murphy begins with an examination of influences on landscape architecture: social context, contemporary Mamas, and the practicalities of working as a professional landscape architect. He then delves into systems and procedural theory, while making connections to ecosystem factors, human factors, utility, aesthetics, and the design process. He concludes by showing how a strong theoretical understanding can be applied to practical, every-day decision making and design work to create more holistic, sustainable, and creative landscapes.Students will take away a foundational Understanding of the underpinnings of landscape architecture theory, as well as how it can be applied to heal-world designs; working professionals will find stimulating insights to infuse their projects with a greater sense of purpose.
Working on the Dock of the Bay explores the history of waterfront labor and laborers - black and white, enslaved and free, native and immigrant - in Charleston, South Carolina, between the American Revolution and Civil War. Michael D. Thompson explains how a predominantly enslaved workforce laid the groundwork for the creation of a robust and effectual association of dockworkers, most of whom were black, shortly after emancipation. In revealing these wharf laborers’ experiences, Thompson’s book contextualizes the struggles of contemporary southern working people.Like their postbellum and present-day counterparts, stevedores and draymen laboring on the wharves and levees of antebellum cities - whether in Charleston or New Orleans, New York or Boston, or elsewhere in the Atlantic World - were indispensable to the flow of commodities into and out of these ports. Despite their large numbers and the key role that waterfront workers played in these cities’ premechanized, labor-intensive commercial economies, too little is known about who these laborers were and the work they performed.Though scholars have explored the history of dockworkers in ports throughout the world, they have given little attention to waterfront laborers and dock work in the pre–Civil War American South or in any slave society. Aiming to remedy that deficiency, Thompson examines the complicated dynamics of race, class, and labor relations through the street-level experiences and perspectives of workingmen and sometimes workingwomen. Using this workers’-eye view of crucial events and developments, Working on the Dock of the Bay relocates waterfront workers and their activities from the margins of the past to the center of a new narrative, reframing their role from observers to critical actors in nineteenth-century American history. Organized topically, this study is rooted in primary source evidence including census, tax, court, and death records; city directories and ordinances; state statutes; wills; account books; newspapers; diaries; letters; and medical journals.