Story of Olympic marathoner from New Zealand, Jack Foster who started running at age 32. Illustrated with photos.

Tale of the Ancient Marathoner: Jack Foster's Own Story (Runner's Monthly # 41)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Foster, Jack

Exercise & Fitness

World Publications

This is a book about reinventing public education in America. The author explains why we simply cannot just improve them. . . .we must change them in significant ways. He describes what needs to be changed, who must make the changes, and why we cannot wait much longer to make them.

If I Could Make a School

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Center for Strategic Policy studies

JACK D. FOSTER, Ph.D. The Ohio State University, has published many professional articles and two books on education policy. His career includes minister of three protestant churches, assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice at Youngstown State University, and public policy consultant on education and criminal justice issues at the state and national levels. He served four years as a Cabinet Secretary for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. He has been a life long student and teacher of the Christian Bible. He is now retired and lives in Lexington, Kentucky. Saul A Man Obsessed is his first novel written out of an intense interest in the personal life of the Apostle Paul. I have always wondered what Paul the man was like. All we have is a rough sketch of his life extracted from his numerous letters which have been preserved as holy scripture. But Paul the person is shrouded in mystery and speculation. Hundreds of books have been written about him, but few attempt to deal with his personality. My imagining of Paul began to form in my mind many years ago, but after I retired I thought it would be interesting to put those images into print in the form of a Christian novel. Saul A Man Obsessed is not another book about Paul's theology or travels. It is not a study guide on the life of St. Paul. It is an attempt to take my personal thoughts about the kind of man I think he was and present them in a fictional retelling of his life story. My intent is to create something that is engaging and enjoyable to read, but not something that resembles a biography. While I have tried to stay true to what seems certain about his life, most of the dialog and subplots are pure fiction. Most of all I hope my readers will enjoy it without yielding to the impulse to get out their Bibles to check how factual the book is. Read and enjoy it as you would any other book of Christian fiction. Leave the fact checking to the critics.

Saul: A Man Obsessed - A Christian Novel

Literature & Fiction

Dog Ear Publishing, LLC

Discover the Secrets to Getting More and Better Ideas, Faster and Easier.First, How to Get Ideas shows you how to condition your mind to become “idea-prone,” utilize your sense of humor, visualize your goals, rethink your thinking, and conquer your fear of rejection. Then, it gives you a proven technique for producing ideas on demand. This expanded edition of the bestselling classic is even more inspiring than the first, with new examples, stories, and quotations; and new chapters on turning failures to your advantage, and enlisting the aid of your friends to create a rich, idea-inducing environment.“If I had money enough to buy only one book, it would be How to Get Ideas.” — Dennis F. Holt, Chairman & CEO, U.S. International Media“The best book on creativity I have ever seen.” — Ron Hoff, author of the bestselling book, I Can See You Naked: A Fearless Guide to Making Great Presentations“One of the best teaching tools I have. I require all my students to read it.” — Mel Sant, Adjunct Professor, Art Center College of Design

How to Get Ideas

Self-Help

Creativity

BRILLIANCE AUDIO ^

The Deep Center is a nonprofit organization in Savannah, Georgia, that helps young people write and share their stories with skill, confidence, and courage. Each year, hundreds of students in Savannah’s public middle schools receive fully-funded scholarships to be a part of the Young Author Project, Deep’s after school writing program. Since our founding in 2008, Deep has published more than 1,700 stories by local students who’ve completed the full semester-long session of rigorous writing workshops. Our students (we call them “DeepKids”) consistently win awards and recognition  for their writing. After completing at least one semester of the Young Author Program, a DeepKid with an exceptional voice may be recommended and invited to join our competitive Writing Contest Team.  This advanced weekly writng workshop is led by Master Writing Fellows who help team members write and submit work  to regional, statewide, and national contests and publications.  For nine months, the Writing Contest Team members submitted thier poems and stories to major literary powerhouses such as the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, Creative Communication, and Yarn Literary Magazine–and came out on top. Every student participates for free and all contest fees are covered by the Deep Center. We do this work because we believe that stories matter, and because we know that learning this fact at a young age helps kids grow into stronger, healthier, and happier people.

Eavesdrop: 2013–2014 Collection of prize-winning poems and prose written by Savannah's youth

Center, Deep

Contest Team, DeepKids from Deep's Writing

Naylor-Johnson, Alex

Keys, Aly

McDonald, Amari

McGrath, Devin

Miehle, Gabrielle

San Juan, Hannah

Howze, Luke

United States

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Having spent 40 years in advertising and coming up with new ideas every day, the author shows readers seven ways to condition the mind to produce ideas and four subsequent steps for creating ideas on command. 12 line drawings.

Business & Money

Business Culture

Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Innovative, original ideas are a company's most powerful competitive advantage. Nathan Mhyrvold, former chief technology officer at Microsoft, has said that a great employee is worth 1,000 times more than an average one simply because of his or her ideas. In Ideaship, the sequel to his bestselling book, How to Get Ideas, Jack Foster shifts from how individuals spark their new ideas to how to unleash the creative genius of an entire organization. To create an idea-prone workforce, Foster proposes a totally new concept of leadership: "ideaship." Leaders shouldn't be spending their time obsessing over profits or sales or quality or service. Instead, they should devote most of their energies to making the office a place where creative ideas flow, where the workforce truly believes in its ability to brilliantly solve any problem put before it. Above all, where it's fun to work. With energy and humor, Foster draws on over thirty-five years as creative director of major advertising agencies-organizations whose only purpose is to constantly generate ideas-to offer dozens of fun, fast, often surprising nuggets of practical advice on how to create an environment where innovation and fresh thinking thrive. He reveals why you should only hire people you like, insist employees take vacations whether they want to or not, why efficiency is sometimes inefficient, and how sometimes you can accomplish more by playing the fool instead of the capital L "Leader." Ideaship spells out proven ways to encourage creativity, simply and clearly and cogently, without a lot of charts and graphs and formulas and acronyms and statistics and fillers. It flips traditional leadership on its head and shows how simple acts of compassion, trust, and generosity of spirit, as well as some seemingly zany actions, can unleash unexpected, vital bursts of creativity.

Ideaship: How to Get Ideas Flowing in Your Workplace

Management & Leadership

This new expanded second edition is an international bestseller with over 200,000 copies sold and translated into 15 languages that shows you—no matter your age or skill, your job or training—how to come up with more ideas, faster and easier. Jack Foster's simple five-step technique for solving problems and getting ideas takes the mystery and anxiety out of the idea-generating process. It's a proven process that works. You'll learn to condition your mind to become "idea-prone," utilize your sense of humor, develop your curiosity, visualize your goals, rethink your thinking, and overcome your fear of rejection. This expanded edition of the inspiring and enlightening classic features new information on how to turn failures to your advantage and how to create a rich, idea-inducing environment. Dozens of new examples and real life stories show that anyone can learn to get more and better ideas.

Corby, Larry

Sherman is a happy little hamster who has a wonderful human and a cozy home. He loves spending his days running on his wheel and cuddling with his best friend, Henry. But, what happens when Henry is gone and Sherman is left to face a scary thunderstorm alone in his cage? Will Sherman learn to conquer his fear? Join Sherman and his animal family in this compassionate story of hope and bravery. Sherman and the Storm is a furry tale of faith and friendship, and a warm-hearted reminder that there is a hero in all of us.

Sherman and the Storm

Children's Books

Schnack, Jessie Jo

Animals

Lighthouse Publishing

Catch-2014: Why 'Yes' lost the referendum and why, if we're not careful, we might end up doing it again

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Independently published

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