Aaron Smith

In his third poetry collection, Primer, Aaron Smith grapples with the ugly realities of the private self, in which desire feels more like a trap than fulfillment. What is the face we prepare in our public lives to distract others from our private grief? Smith's poetry explores that inexplicable tension between what we say and how we actually feel, exposing the complications of intimacy and the limitations of language to bridge those distances between friends, family members, and lovers. What we deny, in the end, may be just what we actually survive. Mortality in Smith's work remains the uncomfortable foundation at the center of our relationship with others, to faith, to art, to love as we grow older, and ultimately, to our own sense of who we are in our bodies in the world. The struggle of this book, finally, is in naming whether just what we say we want is enough to satisfy our primal needs, or are the choices we make to stay alive the same choices we make to help us, in so many small ways, to die.

Primer

Jennifer Smith

Preparing My Heart for Marriage by Praying for Him

31 Prayers for My Future Husband

In Marriage After God, popular marriage bloggers Aaron and Jennifer Smith cast a vision for marriage that goes far beyond happy and healthy - because from the beginning God has purposed marriage to be a ministry and a symbol of His love in the world. Let this book be the catalyst and inspiration for you to chase after God's will for your marriage.

Chasing Boldly After God's Purpose for Your Life Together

Marriage After God

A tour de force, Aaron Smith’s fourth collection of poetry, The Book of Daniel, resists the easy satisfactions of Beauty while managing the contemporary entanglements of art, sex, and grief. Part pop-thriller, part queer rage, and part mourning, these poems depict not only the complications of representation in the age of social media but a critique of identity. Taking on subjects as diverse as the literary canon, his mother’s incurable cancer diagnosis, gay bashing, celebrity gossip, bigotry, violence on TV, and Alexander McQueen’s suicide, Smith proves that the confessional lyric is not dead. In tangents as wild as they are reigned, with his characteristic blend of directness, vulnerability and humor, these poems take on the world as it is, a world we love even as it resists all intimacy.

Poems

The Book of Daniel

bell hooks

Dorothy Allison

Connie May Fowler

Jayne Anne Phillips

Michael Croley

Silas House

Carter Sickels

Chris Offutt

Jason Howard

Julia Watts

Ann Pancake

Jeff Mann

Lisa Lewis

Crystal Wilkinson

Charles Dodd White

Pinckney Benedict

Mary Crockett Hill

Melissa Range

Kathryn Stripling Byer

Joyce Dyer

Jacinda Townsend

Jessie van Eerden

David Huddle

Sheldon Lee Compton

Sarah Einstein

Jane Springer

Richard Currey

Rob Amberg

RJ Gibson

Tennessee Jones

Ida Stewart

In Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean, Adrian Blevins and Karen Salyer McElmurray collect essays from today’s finest established and emerging writers with roots in Appalachia. Together, these essays take the theme of silencing in Appalachian culture, whether the details of that theme revolve around faith, class, work, or family legacies.

In essays that take wide-ranging forms—making this an ideal volume for creative nonfiction classes—contributors write about families left behind, hard-earned educations, selves transformed, identities chosen, and risks taken. They consider the courage required for the inheritances they carry.

Toughness and generosity alike characterize works by Dorothy Allison, bell hooks, Silas House, and others. These writers travel far away from the boundaries of a traditional Appalachia, and then circle back—always—to the mountains that made each of them the distinctive thinking and feeling people they ultimately became. The essays in Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean are an individual and collective act of courage.

Meditations on the Forbidden from Contemporary Appalachia

Walk Til the Dogs Get Mean

Drawing Closer to God & Your Husband

Wife After God

Drawing Closer to God and Your Wife

Husband After God

"31 Prayers For My Wife" is a compilation of prayers that were carefully composed based on areas of life that almost every wife faces. As you use this resource to pray over your wife you will be: * Encouraged to pray for specific areas of her life. * Challenged to make prayer a priority. * Transformed as your desires will align with God's.

Seeing God Move in Her Heart

Thirty-One Prayers for My Wife

Winner of 2004 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. These artful, yet accessible poems are concerned with the body, desire, anxiety, and obsession—how what we want redeems and isolates us. They urge complete exploration of one’s physical and mental selves as a means to remain alive in the material world.

Blue on Blue Ground

Journalist Aaron Smith's new memoir holdsup a unique mirror to Australia. What he sees is at once amazing, disturbingand revealing. The Rock explores the failings of ournation's character, its unresolved past and its uncertain future from thevantage point of its most northerly outpost, Thursday Island. Smith was the last editor, fearlessjournalist and the paperboy of Australia's most northerly newspaper, the TorresNews, a small independent regional tabloid that, until it folded in late2019, was the voice of a predominantly Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginalreadership for 63 years across some of the most remote and little understoodcommunities in Australia. The Rock is a story of self-discovery where Smith grapples tounderstand a national identity marred by its racist underbelly, where he istransplanted from his white-boy privileged suburban life to being a racial andcultural minority, and an outsider. Peppered with his experiences, Smithgradually and sensitively becomes embedded in island life while vividlycapturing the endless and often farcical parade of personalities andpoliticians including Scott Morrison and Tony Abbott. Smith pulls no punches while he reflectson the history of Terra Australis incognita, dissecting whatis truly Australia, and its gaping cultural and moral divide. 'A credit to regional journalism,Aaron carried on the fine tradition of the Torres News holding governments toaccount and telling stories of everyday life in the Straits, never shying awayfrom controversies, lifting all the rocks and even out foxing prime ministerTony Abbott on his visit to Mabo's grave.' --Stefan Armbruster, SBS 'AaronSmith makes a huge and extremely valuable contribution to journalism in Australia. With insight and committment he brings issues of national andinternational significance to audiences in Australia and beyond.' -- DrTess Newton Cain, Griffith Asia Institute 'Aaron's journalism has provided a rare and valuable insight into issuesaffecting the Torres Strait Islander community. Navigating cultural protocolsand geographical challenges, he has given a voice to some of Australia's mostmarginalised people and shared important stories that would otherwise have goneunheard.' -- Ella Archibald-Binge, SydneyMorning Herald

Looking Into Australia's 'Heart of Darkness' from the Edge of Its Wild Frontier

The Rock

Appetite is a book that explores our American Mythologies, particularly masculinity and film. Smith investigates our fascinations with the body, gender, and entertainment in poems that are critically observant, darkly funny, darkly angry, and, sometimes, heartbreaking. Whether he is cataloging shirtless men in films and bad television, lyricizing the anxieties of childhood, or redrawing the lines of cultural membership, Appetite attacks its subjects with wit, candor, and compassionate intensity. These poems announce their presence with a style that is as beautifully wrought as it is provocative. In the America of Appetite, the usual hierarchies are obliterated: the disposable is as valuable as the traditional, pop culture is on the same level as the sacred, and the pleasurable simultaneity of past and present are found in high art and the tabloid. Smith’s work engages our contemporary moment and how we want to think of ourselves, while nodding to rich poetic, cultural, and personal histories.

Appetite

Thomas J. Kiresuk

Joseph E. Cardillo

There is an extensive literature on Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS), but the publications are widely scattered and often inaccessible, covering several foreign countries and many professional disciplines and fields of application. This book provides both a user manual and a complete reference work on GAS, including a comprehensive account of what the method is, what its strengths and limitations are, how it can be used, and what it can offer. The book is designed to be of interest to service providers, program directors and administrators, service and business organizations, program evaluators, researchers, and students in a variety of fields. No previous account of GAS has provided an up-to-date, comprehensive description and explanation of the technique. The chapters include a basic "how to do it" handbook, step-by-step implementation instructions, frequently occurring problems and what should be done about them, methods for monitoring the quality of the goal setting process, and a discussion of policy and administration issues. There are many illustrations from actual applications including examples of goals scaled for the individual, the specific program, the agency, or the total system. Procedures for training and estimates of training costs are also provided.

Applications, Theory, and Measurement

Goal Attainment Scaling

Matthew Nicholson

Bob Stewart

Hans Westerbeek

Russell Hoye

Sport Management: principles and applications second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the practical application of management principles within sport organisations. Ideal for all students studying sport management at an introductory level, it presents an international balanced view between accepted practice and what research evidence tells us about the application of a range of management principles and practices in sport. Structured in two parts it offers an introduction and explanation of the structure of the sport industry and covers the fundamental management issues unique to sport including: strategy, human resource management, leadership, finance, marketing, governance and performance management. Each chapter has a coherent learning structure complete with international case studies and accompanying online lecturer and student support material which: presents a conceptual overview of the focus for the chapter presents accepted practice supported by specific organisational examples at the community, state/provincial, national and professional level, these organisations will include examples specifically from the UK, Australia and New Zealand presents one big case for analysis per chapter, which is supported by online diagnostics and tutor resource materials presents research findings from around the globe presents a summary of guiding principles for the focus of the chapter based on a balanced view of practice and research presents a section of teaching and learning resources including a review questions, further reading, relevant websites provides online access to PowerPoints per chapter, tutorial activities per chapter and test bank of multiple choice questions for students per chapter This book combines clearly explained theory with a variety of pedagogical features that make it essential for students and teachers of sport management.

Sport Management

Thinking of switching or already switched to Signal? This book has got you covered! Many users are moving to Signal as WhatsApp has updated its privacy policy. But what is Signal? And how does the messaging app work? What makes it different and better than WhatsApp? We take a look at that in this book. Signal is a privacy-focused messaging app that has been available since 2014. Whether eliminating operational privacy issues or securing communications on principle, Signal is the go-to app for secure messaging for those in tech and journalism. Signal introduces an "unexpected emphasis on privacy" in a world where privacy breaches and the unauthorized collection of user data have become routine. If you care about privacy when it relates to chatting, Signal is the way to go, and this book provides enough coverage on Signal's privacy features. Care to know how to do the following on Signal: Install Signal on iOS and Android devices as well as on PC? Make encrypted audio and video calls? Turn off screenshot function to protect your chats (chat privacy)? Activate disappearing pictures and messages? Turn Signal to a note-taking app? Conceal your IP when making calls (IP privacy)? Delete old messages automatically (chat decluttering)? Edit pictures on Signal (image editing)? Hide your face before sharing your picture (facial privacy)? This book covers these and more... If you're following the transitory wave, you could end up being clueless with Signal. This book solves the cluelessness by providing the best user tips for using Signal Messenger like a pro. To enjoy the privacy benefits of this app, this book discusses the best Signal tips that can enhance your messaging experience. Here, you will find all the best Signal features that will allow you to use the messaging service to your full advantage. With that said, click the BUY button to make your onboarding a breeze.

Unravel the Best Signal Private Messenger Tips for Secured Calls and Chats

Mind-blowing Signal 101 Guide for Beginners and Experts

Introduction to Sports Marketing is the first book to take the beginner through the sometimes baffling world of sports marketing. Written in a very accessible manner specifically for anyone at the start of their careers, this book explains the basic principles and practices of strategic marketing in the sports industry. Unlike current books available on the market, this is aimed at the beginner and equips them with the skills to: apply marketing theory to the unique sports industry environment conduct an internal and external analysis of a sport organization in order to identify market opportunities apply basic skills in the identification of marketing opportunities, and the formulation of these opportunities into marketing objectives use a marketing framework to develop a strategic sport marketing direction use a marketing framework to develop a sport marketing strategy that addresses segmentation, targeting, differentiation and marketing mix variables utilize control and quality tools to monitor progress and introduce changes to the marketing strategy and tactics. Packed with cases, questions, exercises, illustrations and with supporting online materials, Introduction to Sports Marketing should be the first stop on any sports manager and marketers' reading list.

Introduction to Sport Marketing

How to Stop Procrastinating is the book that you need to change your ways. This book can give you many tips and a lot of information to improve the way you handle your life. If this sounds interesting, then keep reading! We all procrastinate from time to time. We might even have a friend or two that are notorious for it. However, some of us take it to the extreme and do nothing but procrastinate. It doesn't matter if it's schoolwork, cleaning, or even just something as simple as answering emails; they never seem to get done. For them, it isn't a matter of a lack of time but a lack of willpower. If you're a procrastinator, there's no need to feel bad; you're in good company. We've all procrastinated at one time or another. Discover how to handle that through this book. In general, we procrastinate for two reasons: either because we're motivated to avoid or postpone some dangerous task or activity or because we're motivated to approach or do something positive. Regardless of the motivation, procrastination is a habit that can be addressed. Simply put, procrastination is the avoidance of doing a task or completing a project. Some procrastinate because: - They are afraid of failure - They believe they will succeed in the future In reality, procrastination can have severe consequences in the workplace and everyday life. Procrastination can affect all areas of your life: - Career - Finances - Relationships So, you want to stop procrastinating. Sometimes it's just not possible. This book is here to tell you that it is possible. There are strategies that you can learn to improve your actions. You will be able to overcome procrastinating with these powerful strategies. Procrastinating can be overcome, and that can be achieved through the help of this very comprehensive book. So click the "BUY NOW" button and get your copy!

Powerful Strategies to Overcome Procrastination

How to Stop Procrastinating

Get On The Snapchat Train!!! By now you’ve heard of Snapchat. It’s all over the place, and it isn’t going away anytime soon. After it launched in 2011, Snapchat has become a social media phenomenon – it is one of the world’s fastest growing social networking apps with 150 million active daily users who view 10 billion videos every day - and it is expected to keep growing. If you want to reach a younger audience and remain abreast with social media happenings, Snapchat is surely for you. More than 60% of U.S. 13 to 34-year-old smartphone users are on Snapchat, and Snapchat recently overtook Facebook in the number of daily video views. With new users signing up by the day, Snapchat is red hot at the moment! If you are interested in joining the Snapchat craze and learning the basics, please check out this step-by-step guide outlined in this book. In this picture illustrated book, you will learn how: Snapchat works To get started on Snapchat To search and add friends on Snapchat To take selfie snaps To video chat To add captions, drawings, and stickers to your snaps To add lenses, filters, and geofilters To save your snaps To convert your snaps into stories To find stories from your favorite publishers ...just to mention a few Snapchat is so simple to use, and this guide will help you understand how you can get the most out of it! What are you waiting for? Click the download button and add this book to your library

An Easy Get Started Guide On Snapchatting

Snapchat 101

This work engages the music, life and inspiration of Tupac a Shakur on an academic, personal and inspirational level. Through biographical sketches, lyric analysis and poetry, Smith displays the cultural significance and lasting legacy of Tupac Amaru Shakur.

Tupac and the Hip-Hop Revolution

Sport Management: principles and applications provides a comprehensive introduction to the practical application of management principles within sport organisations operating at the community, state, national and professional levels in club based sporting systems. It presents an international balanced view between accepted practice and what research evidence tells us about the application of a range of management principles and practices in sport. Structured in three parts it investigates: The history of the evolution of sport and the current drivers of change in the sport industry, the role of the state, non-profit and professional sectors in sport. Core management principles and their application in sport, highlighting the unique features of how sport is managed compared to other sectors of the economy. This will include discussion and insight into organisational behaviour, organisational culture, strategic planning, organisational structures, human resource management, leadership, governance, and performance management. The future management challenges facing the sport industry. Each chapter has a coherent learning structure complete with international case studies as follows: A conceptual overview of the focus for the chapter. A presentation of accepted practice supported by specific organisational examples at the community, state/provincial, national and professional level. These organisations will include examples from countries such as New Zealand, Australia, and the UK. A presentation of research findings from around the globe. A summary of guiding principles for the focus of the chapter based on a balanced view of practice and research. A section of teaching and learning resources including a reference list, lists for further reading, relevant websites, tutorial activity or study questions, potential research questions and online PowerPoint lecture slides for each chapter. It provides the foundation for introductory sport management subjects, and is ideal for first and second year students studying sport management related courses and those studying sport management within business focussed courses, human movement / physical education courses seeking an overview of sport management principles.

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