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| how to make esp work for you: How to Make ESP Work for You Harold Morrow Sherman, 1964 Have you ever had a premonition that something was going to happen -and it did? Have you suddenly thought of someone you've not thought about for months or years only to run into him or her at an unexpected place? Have you had a vivid dream of some event that later came to pass? Then you've already experienced the incredible power of extrasensory perception. Here, in this exciting and revealing book, ESP expert HarOld Sherman shares his most outstanding, authentic ESP experiences and shows you how to harness the power of ESP to make it work for you! |
| how to make esp work for you: Helping Yourself with ESP Al G. Manning, 1999-10-01 Have you ever experienced déjà vu or had an uncanny dream that turned out to be prophetic? Have you ever made an unusual choice or decision that turned out to be correct and attributed it to a “gut feeling”? These events are actually manifestations of your extrasensory perception, or ESP. Now you can develop your dormant extrasensory perception and use it to attain personal achievement and lasting fulfillment. For forty years, Dr. Al G. Manning, a noted expert in the field of parapsychology, has been helping even the most skeptical people recognize their ESP, clear away blocks to extrasensory development, and use their psychic abilities to enrich every aspect of their lives. Dr. Manning’s Helping Yourself with ESP gives you simple exercises and practical, down-to-earth advice that will show you how to: • Improve your health through spiritual healing • Set up a spiritual current that draws wealth to you • Create a dynamic, magnetic personality that attracts people to you • Sharpen your clairvoyant sight and hearing • Reach out to helpful “spirit guides” and “personal protectors” • Attain success and solve problems through concentration and meditation • Forge the psychic strength to face any crisis with confidence • Discover your true purpose in life Filled with inspiring stories of ordinary people changed forever by the positive force of their own psychic powers, Helping Yourself with ESP is your spiritual guide to finding within yourself the key to happiness, prosperity, and peace of mind. |
| how to make esp work for you: Jose Silva's Everyday ESP Jose Silva, Jr., 2007 If you've ever experienced a hunch that pays off, a dream with useful information, or an unexplained coincidence, you've probably used ESP and didn't know it. Jose Silva's Everyday ESP will help you tap into your natural ability of ESP and understand hidden information to better all areas of your life, including health, wealth, and relationships. Imagine you had a guide who knew what lies ahead, and who could direct you to success and happiness. Here you will learn how to obtain guidance from higher intelligence to make good decisions and to fulfill your life's purpose. This book features the scientifically proven Silva Dynamic Meditation System, developed by world-renowned parapsychologist Jose Silva. And, for the first time in any of the books released by Silva, an audio CD is included to speed up the process. The CD features the Silva Centering Exercise-in just a few hours you can be functioning at the powerful alpha brain wave level. Now is the time to live the successful life that higher intelligence envisioned for you. As Jose Silva used to say, May the rest of your life, be the best of your life. Book jacket. |
| how to make esp work for you: Learning to Use Extrasensory Perception Charles T. Tart, 2001-07-18 All attempts to test people's ESP abilities overlook the fact that ESP is an undeveloped function, so we have to learn how to use it to begin with, not just see how much ESP we can show. Psychologist Charles T. Tart applied basic principles of learning to this task to show how training under conditions of immediate feedback could enhance ESP ability. This highly readable book, originally published by the University of Chicago Press, is the theory and a comprehensive study suggesting the principles can work. |
| how to make esp work for you: Extra-sensory Perception Joseph Banks Rhine, 1964-01-01 |
| how to make esp work for you: Silva Ultramind Systems ESP for Business Success Jose Silva Jr., Katherine Sandusky, Ed Bernd Jr., 2019-01-16 Whether you are a business executive or a home worker, an entrepreneur or freelancer, Jose Silva's UltraMind Systems ESP for Business Success gives you the winning mindset you need to succeed. *Oprah Winfrey said: The more we can tune in to our intuition, the better off we are. * Steve Jobs called it more powerful than intellect. * Albert Einstein said it is the sacred gift. Your knowledge, mind power, and inner strength will give you the only real job security that exists. This book will help you: Make better decisions Improve efficiency Boost your confidence Communicate better Find hidden information Anticipate the future Plan for what lies ahead Create a better world The UltraMind ESP System is the culmination of the life work of Silva Method founder José Silva. Start today, because the greatest discovery you will ever make is the power of your own mind. |
| how to make esp work for you: Practical Intuition Laura Day, 1997-09-29 Gut feeling. Sixth sense. Hunch. No matter what it's called, intuition plays a part in the decisions we make every day. In seminars around the world, Laura Day has taught business people, financial analysts, celebrities, homemakers, doctors, lawyers, and other professionals how to consciously tap this hidden ability. Now, through a step-by-step program, first-person accounts, and real-life examples, Day shows you how to unlock the remarkable power of your mind. Practical Intuition will help you: follow your hunches and control your enthusiasms make better investment and business decisions read other people more accurately make more informed decisions about your health know whether a partner is right for you understand what you really want to do with the rest of your life and much more |
| how to make esp work for you: Do You See What I See? Russell Targ, 2010-03-01 Now in paperback, the droll memoir by a world-class physicist that includes recollections of his involvement with pioneering laser research, encounters with many of the most recognizable literary, cultural, and entertainment figures of the 20th century, and his role in teaching ESP techniques to the CIA--a real-life X-Files saga. Russll Targ is a Zelig-like character. His story is an idiosyncratic journey through the highways and byways of American intellectual, scientific, and cultural life in 20th century. His father (the long-time editor-in-chief at Putnam) acquired The Godfather on the basis of an outline scribbled on the back of a napkin. His mother was the first press agent of the fan dancer Sally Rand. His step-mother is the legendary literary agent Rosalind Targ. He was married for thirty years to the sister of the infamous chess master Bobby Fischer. He briefly dated Henny Youngman’s cousin. He attended college with Alan Alda’s wife, Arlene. He was part of Ayn Rand’s study group in the 1950s--along with economist Alan Greenspan. He was a pioneer in laser research. He spent many years developing air-borne laser wind sensors for Lockheed and NASA. He co-founded the Stanford Research Institute remote viewing program--which was funded by the CIA--and was instrumental in tracking Soviet and Chinese weapon installations during the Cold War. And, he is a legally blind motorcyclist—who happens to be a Buddhist. This is a fascinating memoir by a first-class intellect; the story of a physicist who has pushed the boundaries of siceince to explory the realms of parapsychology, spirituality, and the unexplained. |
| how to make esp work for you: The Reality of ESP Russell Targ, 2012-03-27 The co-founder of the 20-year government-supported ESP-research program at Stanford Research Institute delivers the evidence of psychic abilities that he has collected. Original. |
| how to make esp work for you: My Side of the Mountain (Puffin Modern Classics) Jean Craighead George, 2004-04-12 Terribly unhappy in his family's crowded New York City apartment, Sam Gribley runs away to the solitude-and danger-of the mountains, where he finds a side of himself he never knew. |
| how to make esp work for you: Thoughts Through Space Sir George Hubert Wilkins, Harold Morrow Sherman, 2004 Thoughts Through Space had its origin in a daring plan conceived by two courageous men. It began in Autumn 1937 when a group of Russian flyers on a trans-polar flight crashed on a shelf of ice on the Alaskan side of the Pole. To find and rescue them--if they were still alive--the Russian government commissioned Arctic explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins to organize and lead an aerial search in those desolate regions. While in New York, prior to his departure, Sir Hubert met Harold Sherman, a student of mental powers who had long been intrigued by telepathy, the phenomenon of mind-to-mind communication. Seeing an unusual opportunity to put telepathy to a scientific test, Sherman and Wilkins decided to collaborate on a six-month experiment. It was agreed between them that Wilkins, once his expedition was underway, would try to transmit thought messages at prearranged times directly to Sherman in New York. Both men would keep written records of each session, Wilkins noting down his thoughts as sender, and Sherman recording his mental impressions in his role as receiver. This account re-creates all the absorbing drama and adventure of the experiment as the participants lived it. With Wilkins you fly in a small plane over the roof of the world, scanning the moonlit landscape for lost fliers, your mind filled with worried thoughts of weather conditions, radio contacts, fuel supplies, and countless other perils while straining to send your thoughts across space to the waiting mind of Harold Sherman. With Sherman, you will sit in a darkened room in New York with sights and sounds flooding into your awareness. And you will read of the remarkable successful results when the two men finally compared notes, proving that the thought--messages were indeed sent and received across 3,400 miles. Sherman's years of study convinced him that his telepathy is a common human ability, and that we can all learn to use it. |
| how to make esp work for you: How to Make Yourself Happy and Remarkably Less Disturbable Albert Ellis, 1999 ... Dozens of real-life case examples, detailed descriptions of self-help action steps ... [to help] overcome anxiety, depression, rage, self-hate, or self pity ... --Cover. |
| how to make esp work for you: Phenomena Annie Jacobsen, 2017-03-28 The definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomena, from the author of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Pentagon's Brain and international bestseller Area 51. This is a book about a team of scientists and psychics with top secret clearances. For more than forty years, the U.S. government has researched extrasensory perception, using it in attempts to locate hostages, fugitives, secret bases, and downed fighter jets, to divine other nations' secrets, and even to predict future threats to national security. The intelligence agencies and military services involved include CIA, DIA, NSA, DEA, the Navy, Air Force, and Army-and even the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Now, for the first time, New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen tells the story of these radical, controversial programs, using never before seen declassified documents as well as exclusive interviews with, and unprecedented access to, more than fifty of the individuals involved. Speaking on the record, many for the first time, are former CIA and Defense Department scientists, analysts, and program managers, as well as the government psychics themselves. Who did the U.S. government hire for these top secret programs, and how do they explain their military and intelligence work? How do scientists approach such enigmatic subject matter? What interested the government in these supposed powers and does the research continue? Phenomena is a riveting investigation into how far governments will go in the name of national security. |
| how to make esp work for you: Know Your Own Mind Harold Sherman, 2017-12-24 In this book, first published in 1953, Harold Sherman makes clear how we can attune our minds to the God Consciousness within through proper exercise of meditation, faith, prayer and intuition. By learning how to develop these faculties, we can help to rid ourselves of the loneliness and insecurity we feel. This makes us strong within, and with this new strength we can at last begin to know the joy of living a full life! * The book contains many highly interesting case histories of men and women who have had unusual, supernormal experiences. For those who are skeptical of the extrasensory powers of the mind, Harold Sherman gives many fascinating illustrations of his own adventures in the realm of mind. * He also reveals how to relax body and mind, how to picture in consciousness what is desired, how to cause the creative power within to bring this picture to pass in real life through right use of the power of prayer supported by faith. Five basic prayers are presented, designed to reach the God Consciousness and to place the individual in such attunement that he can attract anything to him. * The reader of this book will also find a technique of healing so clearly set forth that he will immediately begin using its methods in his own life. * From Norman Vincent Peale, author of The Power of Positive Thinking: I have just read your book, Know Your Own Mind. It is in the best tradition of the Harold Sherman books, and I find it enlightening, interesting, and helpful. You have a sound philosophy and understand of life and people. * From Ernest Holmes, founder of Science of Mind: Know Your Own Mind is really a wonderful book. It very understandingly presents the high workings of the mind and the functioning of the intuition. I particularly like your idea that God speaks to man through the intuition. I can wholeheartedly well recommend Know Your Own Mind to all who are in search of self-development through coming better to understand its mental and spiritual truths. No one could study your book without deriving great benefit and self-advancement. -ERNEST HOLMES, founder of Science of Mind |
| how to make esp work for you: How to Make ESP Work for You Harold Sherman, Sherman, Josepha, 1981-11-12 |
| how to make esp work for you: Candide Voltaire, 2018-10-17 Candide, is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. It begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism by his mentor, Professor Pangloss. The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle, followed by Candide's slow and painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. Voltaire concludes with Candide, if not rejecting Leibnizian optimism outright, advocating a deeply practical precept, we must cultivate our garden, in lieu of the Leibnizian mantra of Pangloss, all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds. (Wikipedia) |
| how to make esp work for you: The Cult of Smart Fredrik deBoer, 2020-08-04 Named one of Vulture’s Top 10 Best Books of 2020! Leftist firebrand Fredrik deBoer exposes the lie at the heart of our educational system and demands top-to-bottom reform. Everyone agrees that education is the key to creating a more just and equal world, and that our schools are broken and failing. Proposed reforms variously target incompetent teachers, corrupt union practices, or outdated curricula, but no one acknowledges a scientifically-proven fact that we all understand intuitively: Academic potential varies between individuals, and cannot be dramatically improved. In The Cult of Smart, educator and outspoken leftist Fredrik deBoer exposes this omission as the central flaw of our entire society, which has created and perpetuated an unjust class structure based on intellectual ability. Since cognitive talent varies from person to person, our education system can never create equal opportunity for all. Instead, it teaches our children that hierarchy and competition are natural, and that human value should be based on intelligence. These ideas are counter to everything that the left believes, but until they acknowledge the existence of individual cognitive differences, progressives remain complicit in keeping the status quo in place. This passionate, voice-driven manifesto demands that we embrace a new goal for education: equality of outcomes. We must create a world that has a place for everyone, not just the academically talented. But we’ll never achieve this dream until the Cult of Smart is destroyed. |
| how to make esp work for you: Your Key to Happiness Harold Morrow Sherman, 1961 |
| how to make esp work for you: Blues, How Do You Do? Christian O'Connell, 2015-08-12 Examines the role of black American music abroad in the post-WWII era through the lens of one of the period's most prolific and influential blues scholars, Paul Oliver |
| how to make esp work for you: Synchronicity Allan Combs, Mark Holland, 1994 Examines the work of Jung and Pauli on the phenomena of 'meaningful coincidences'. |
| how to make esp work for you: English for Specific Purposes Instruction and Research Nalan Kenny, Elvan Eda Işık-Taş, Huang Jian, 2019-12-21 This edited book focuses on current practices, challenges and innovations in the emerging field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP). By combining diverse, empirically-proven and innovative ESP practices from all over the world with inspiring theoretical input and reflections from experienced practitioners, the authors in this volume examine both best-practice examples and ESP programmes which by various metrics are deemed to have failed. This book will be of interest to practitioners, teacher educators and researchers working in the field of ESP, as well as readers interested in language education and curriculum development more broadly. |
| how to make esp work for you: Make Shift Happen Dean Dwyer, 2012-05-10 Being vegetarian for nineteen years and working out intensely four to five days per week was supposed to yield results. However, the bagel of fat that Dean Dwyer clutched with both hands told a very different tale. At the ripe old age of 45, unemployed and facing a very uncertain future, Dwyer found himself at a rather disturbing crossroads, asking a rather counterintuitive question: What if eating healthy is making me fat? And with that one simple question, a paradigm shift like no other was unleashed. Suddenly, nothing was sacred ground. Everything was open for debate. Is cardio important? Hell, is it even necessary? Is diet and exercise secondary to the battle with our personal demons? Is it possible that most of us are over-CARB-onating ourselves with the crappy food we eat? Would we be healthier with NO grains in our diet whatsoever? Could we lose fat by eating more fat? In an honest and at times humorous portrayal of his own personal journey, Dwyer takes us on a coming-of-age tale about weight loss and it's intersection with truth. What he discovers leads to an evolution of 12 EPIC shifts that resulted in an incredible body, mind, and soul transformation. |
| how to make esp work for you: Well Designed Life Kyra Bobinet, 2015-09-12 I know what I should do...I just don't know why I don't do it. This phrase captures a universal human experience--we can't always get ourselves to do what we know is best for us. In Well Designed Life, you will learn that the solution to this stumbling block resides in coupling two disciplines: brain science and design thinking. Brain and behavior sciences have exploded in recent years. This catalyzes new insights into why we do what we do--and how we can change. Meanwhile, major advances in consumer technology, service industries, and public health are rapidly changing how we live. This boom of innovation has been fueled by a creative approach to solving problems called design thinking. We are living in the age of design--and designers are the new rock stars. Dr. Kyra Bobinet brings together over 25 years of successfully designing interventions, products, and experiences that change lives--to empower you as the designer of your life. Dr. Bobinet has gathered ten key concepts from psychology, behavior and neuroscience and applies each of them to changing your health, relationships, and well-being. Bobinet insists that the success or failure of changing our lives hinges on both understanding what's going on inside our head and applying the flexible mindset of a designer. She writes, Adopting the mindset of a designer puts you in the driver's seat of making life work. Grounding yourself in the science of how we see the world and how our brain responds helps you design behaviors that work--in real life. This is about you acting on what you always wished you would do. It's about stepping out of any areas of helplessness and into creative self-direction. You have a choice: design your life or let it design you! Infused with relatable narratives that are at once witty and gripping, professional and personal, Bobinet takes you on a journey through the origins of your self-image, motivations, decisions, and unconscious behaviors--leaving you with the keys to free yourself from your conditioning and lead a well-designed life. |
| how to make esp work for you: The Winter's Sleep Monica Cafferky, 2019-10-21 A handsome husband. A beautiful home. A job she loves. Yet Brigid Raven is drowning in debt and there's only one way out. Fake her death and walk away from everything she's struggled so hard to build. |
| how to make esp work for you: Holy Bible (NIV) Various Authors,, 2008-09-02 The NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation. |
| how to make esp work for you: Energy Leadership Bruce D Schneider, 2010-12-16 In Energy Leadership, renowned coach Bruce D. Schneider teaches how to understand the most important personal resource of all -- energy, and shows how to harness it to achieve success in the workplace, the home, and in the world at large. This engaging and fast-paced story clearly explains how managers and leaders from all walks of life can use the principles of Energy Leadership to inspire themselves and others to achieve extraordinary results in whatever they do. The author provides insight into a cutting edge coaching process he has developed, which has positively impacted the lives of tens of thousands of people in both the corporate and private sectors. You will learn how to: Recognize the seven distinct levels that are the key to understanding why everyone thinks and acts the way they do, in life and specifically within the workplace. Distinguish truly effective leaders from those who deplete the energy of the people around them, and specific techniques to shift energy levels to inspire peak performance. Become powerful leaders who motivate themselves and others to reach their true potential. Identify the Big Four Energy Blocks and discover proven techniques and strategies for overcoming these and other obstacles to success. Develop the ability to shift internal energy to meet any leadership challenge, and use this newfound power to inspire respect, confidence, and loyalty in others. If you always try to inspire others but sometimes feel like something?s missing, something is. Energy Leadership puts you in touch with the missing link between your ambitions and your ability to achieve them. |
| how to make esp work for you: Corpora in ESP/EAP Writing Instruction Maggie Charles, Ana Frankenberg-Garcia, 2021-03-29 This collection showcases the latest innovations in research on the application of corpora and corpus-based methods in ESP/EAP writing instruction and the many ways in which corpora can be successfully and practically integrated in ESP/EAP programmes. While previous work has discussed the successful use of corpora in teaching writing in the areas of ESP/EAP, this book is the first of its kind to bring the most up-to-date research on the topic together in one place. The volume’s unique structure mirrors the key stages of the writing instruction process, from preparation to exploitation to analysis. The book begins by showing how corpora can be used to prepare materials, moving into an exploration of how students in ESP/EAP programmes use corpora in practice, before bringing the discussion full circle to the ways in which corpus-based approaches might be implemented to analyse ESP/EAP student writing. This approach presents readers with insights into how corpora can be effectively integrated into ESP/EAP writing instruction at every step of the process and opens the way for future areas of study. This book will be of particular interest to students and researchers in applied corpus linguistics, English for Specific Purposes, and English for Academic Purposes, as well as active practitioners in ESP/EAP writing instruction. |
| how to make esp work for you: The Dead Are Alive Harold Sherman, 2011-02-16 In case after amazing case, you'll listen to the actual voices of the dead--contrary, lyrical entrancing. You'll explore the meaning of out-of-body experiences and learn how spirits of the dead can be seen as well as heard. You'll also discover how YOU can communicate with the dead--and capture their voices on an ordinary tape recorder! |
| how to make esp work for you: The Anvil of the World Kage Baker, 2010-04-01 Kage Baker's stories and novels of the mysterious organization that controls time travel, The Company, have made her famous in SF. So has her talent for clever dialogue and pointed social commentary with a light touch. Ms. Baker is the best thing to happen to modern science fiction since Connie Willis or Dan Simmons. She mixes adventure, history and societal concerns in just the right amount, creating an action-packed but thoughtful read, says The Dallas Morning News. The Anvil of the World is her first fantasy novel, a journey across a landscape filled with bizarre creatures, human and otherwise. It is the tale of Smith, of the large extended family of Smiths, of the Children of the Sun. They are a race given to blood feuds, and Smith was formerly an extremely successful assassin. Now he has wearied of his work and is trying to retire in another country, to live an honest life in obscurity in spite of all those who have sworn to kill him. His problems begin when he agrees to be the master of a caravan from the inland city of Troon to the seaside city of Salesh. The caravan is dogged by murder, magic, and the brooding image of the Master of the Mountain, a powerful demon, looking down from his mountain kingdom upon the greenlands and the travelers passing below. In Salesh, Smith becomes an innkeeper, but on the journey he befriended the young Lord Ermenwyr, a decadent demonic half-breed. Each time Ermenwyr turns up, he brings new trouble with him. The outgrowth of stories Baker has been writing since childhood, as engaging as Tolkien and yet nothing like him, Smith's adventure is certainly the only fantasy on record with a white-uniformed nurse, gourmet cuisine, one hundred and forty-four glass butterflies, and a steamboat. This is a book filled with intrigue, romance, sudden violence, and moments of emotional impact, a cast of charming characters, and echoes of the fantasy tradition that runs from Lord Dunsany and Fritz Leiber to Jack Vance and Roger Zelazny. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. |
| how to make esp work for you: José Silva's Ultramind ESP System Ed Bernd, 2000 Shows how to unlock the incredible powers of your own mind and use them to connect to a higher power to obtain the guidance you need to be successful, happy, and fulfilled. |
| how to make esp work for you: Blood Crazy Simon Clark, 2014-10-28 It is a quiet, uneventful Saturday in Doncaster. Nick Aten, and his best friend Steve Price – troubled seventeen year olds – spend it as usual hanging around the sleepy town, eating fast food and planning their revenge on Tug Slatter, a local bully and their arch-enemy. But by Sunday, Tug Slatter becomes the last of their worries because somehow overnight civilization is in ruins. Adults have become murderously insane – literally. They're infected with an uncontrollable urge to kill the young. Including their own children. As Nick and Steve try to escape the deadly town covered with the mutilated bodies of kids, a group of blood-thirsty adults ambushes them. Just a day before they were caring parents and concerned teachers, today they are savages destroying the future generation. Will Nick and Steve manage to escape? Is their hope that outside the Doncaster borders the world is 'normal' just a childish dream? Blood Crazy, first published in 1995, is a gripping, apocalyptic horror from Simon Clark. |
| how to make esp work for you: Living with Less Joshua Becker, 2012-08-01 In Living with less, Joshua will guide you through biblical teachings on possessions and his own personal experience with minimalism--living with only the essential ... This book will challenge you to spend your hours, energy, and resources in ways that draw you closer to the heart of Jesus.--Page 4 of cover. |
| how to make esp work for you: The Essential Guide to Remote Viewing Paul H. Smith, 2015-05-31 Written by one of the world's leading experts in the field, The Essential Guide to Remote Viewing is a basic introduction to the extraordinary extrasensory perceptual skill which was developed for the US military during the Cold War. This book describes what remote viewing is, how it came to be, what kinds of remote viewing there are, and counters skeptical arguments against remote viewing's legitimacy. Further, the book contains examples of successful remote viewing attempts, explains how remote viewing can be used for practical purposes, how ordinary civilians can themselves now learn to do it, and outlines experiments that readers can try for themselves. The ideal reader of The Essential Guide to Remote Viewing will be someone who knows little or nothing about remote viewing and wants an inexpensive source for credible information. Others who will be interested are those who are involved in remote viewing and want an easily-accessible introduction to give to friends or relatives who have questions about what this thing is their loved ones have gotten involved with. Finally, those who are already involved with remote viewing but feel the need to extend their basic knowledge will find this book both interesting and useful. |
| how to make esp work for you: The Myth of Surrender Kelly O'Connor McNees, 2022-03-01 What if the most important decision of your life was not yours to make? This vivid and powerful novel follows two women whose paths intersect at a maternity home in the Baby Scoop Era. In 1960, free-spirited Doreen is a recent high-school grad and waitress in a Chicago diner. She doesn't know Margie, sixteen and bookish, who lives a sheltered suburban life, but they soon meet when unplanned pregnancies send them to the Holy Family Home for the Wayward in rural Illinois. Assigned as roommates because their due dates line up, Margie and Doreen navigate Holy Family’s culture of secrecy and shame and become fast friends as the weight of their coming decision — to keep or surrender their babies — becomes clear. Except, they soon realize, the decision has already been made for them. Holy Family, like many of the maternity homes where 1.5 million women “relinquished” their babies in what is now known as the Baby Scoop Era, is not interested in what the birth mothers want. In its zeal to make the babies “legitimate” in closed adoptions, Holy Family manipulates and bullies birth mothers, often coercing them to sign away their parental rights while still under the effects of anesthesia. What happens next, as their babies are born and they leave Holy Family behind, will force each woman to confront the depths and limits of motherhood and friendship, and fight to reclaim control over their own lives. Written by the acclaimed author of The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott and Undiscovered Country, The Myth of Surrender explores a hidden chapter of American history that still reverberates across the lives of millions of women and their children. |
| how to make esp work for you: The Novel Cure Ella Berthoud, Susan Elderkin, 2013-09-05 When read at the right moment, a novel can change your life. Bibliotherapists Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin know the power of a good book, and have been prescribing each other literary remedies for all life's aches and pains for decades. Together, they've compiled a medical handbook with a difference: a dictionary of literary cures for any malaise you can imagine. Whether it's struggling to find a good cup of tea (Douglas Adams, two sugars) or being in need of a good cry (Thomas Hardy, plus tissues), as well as cures for all kinds of reading ailments - from being a compulsive book buyer to a tendency to give up halfway through a novel - Ella and Susan have the tonic for all ailments, great or small. Written with authority, passion and wit, The Novel Cure is an enchanting reminder of the power and pleasure of forgetting your troubles in a good book. |
| how to make esp work for you: Spanish Sentence Builders - A Lexicogrammar Approach Dylan Viñales, Gianfranco Conti, 2021-05 This is the newly updated SECOND EDITION! This version has been fully re-checked for accuracy and re-formatted to make it even more user-friendly, following feedback after a full year of classroom use by thousands of teachers across the world. Spanish Sentence Builders is a workbook aimed at beginner to pre-intermediate students co-authored by two modern languages educators with over 40 years of extensive classroom experience between the two, both in the UK and internationally. This 'no-frills' book contains 19 units of work on very popular themes, jam-packed with graded vocabulary-building, reading, translation, retrieval practice and writing activities. Key vocabulary, lexical patterns and structures are recycled and interleaved throughout. Each unit includes: 1) A sentence builder modelling the target constructions; 2) A set of vocabulary building activities; 3) A set of narrow reading texts exploited through a range of tasks focusing on both the meaning and structural levels of the text; 4) A set of retrieval-practice translation tasks; 5) A set of writing tasks targeting essential micro-skills such as spelling, lexical retrieval, syntax, editing and communication of meaning. Based on the Extensive Processing Instruction (E.P.I.) principle that learners learn best from comprehensible and highly patterned input flooded with the target linguistic features, the authors have carefully designed each and every text and activity to enable the student to process and produce each item many times over. This occurs throughout each unit of work as well as in smaller grammar, vocabulary and question-skills micro-units located at regular intervals in the book, which aim at reinforcing the understanding and retention of the target grammar, vocabulary and question patterns. |
| how to make esp work for you: The Professor Is In Karen Kelsky, 2015-08-04 The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their Ph.D. into their ideal job Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their Ph.D. And each year only a small percentage of them will land a job that justifies and rewards their investment. For every comfortably tenured professor or well-paid former academic, there are countless underpaid and overworked adjuncts, and many more who simply give up in frustration. Those who do make it share an important asset that separates them from the pack: they have a plan. They understand exactly what they need to do to set themselves up for success. They know what really moves the needle in academic job searches, how to avoid the all-too-common mistakes that sink so many of their peers, and how to decide when to point their Ph.D. toward other, non-academic options. Karen Kelsky has made it her mission to help readers join the select few who get the most out of their Ph.D. As a former tenured professor and department head who oversaw numerous academic job searches, she knows from experience exactly what gets an academic applicant a job. And as the creator of the popular and widely respected advice site The Professor is In, she has helped countless Ph.D.’s turn themselves into stronger applicants and land their dream careers. Now, for the first time ever, Karen has poured all her best advice into a single handy guide that addresses the most important issues facing any Ph.D., including: -When, where, and what to publish -Writing a foolproof grant application -Cultivating references and crafting the perfect CV -Acing the job talk and campus interview -Avoiding the adjunct trap -Making the leap to nonacademic work, when the time is right The Professor Is In addresses all of these issues, and many more. |
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知乎，中文互联网高质量的问答社区和创作者聚集的原创内容平台，于 2011 年 1 月正式上线，以「让人们更好的分享知识、经验和见解，找到自己的解答」为品牌使命。知乎凭借认真、专业 …
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Feb 24, 2021 · 它分为三个版本：一个是免费的SketchUp，SketchUp Make 版本和付费的SketchUp Pro。 SketchUp软體需要用户渲染表面，而且还支持第三方插件程序。 此外，他还 …
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投稿两天直接Decision in Process，好事还是坏事？ - 知乎
applied mathematics and computation4.19投稿4.21就变成了decision in process，这是好事还是坏事？
