Bøger af Terry Williams

How long do you really want to live?Our longevity, health and quality of life are due 30% to genetic luck and 70% to our choices and behaviours. We're dealt some cards and this book is about how to play the best hand, given those cards we've been dealt. No one wants to live forever but most of us would like to get the most out of whatever we've got coming. The vast majority of us would like to keep on going until we don't, not taper off to a long unhealthy tail-end of life. Regardless of how long we have, how do we stay healthier longer, optimise our happiness and make it all worthwhile?Reviewing and summarising much of the recent research on life expectancy, quality of life and personal productivity, this book then focuses on: adding ten productive years to your work life. (Work in the broadest sense of the word.) Currently, there is a lot of concern and uncertainty about living longer with less money, poorer health and disconnected people. The baby boomers are the most significant moneyed demographic and they're greying at a pace. Now is a time of unparalleled affluence and longevity, yet we are faced with low quality-of-life issues driven by stress, obesity and unwise lifestyle choices. Forget waiting for that elusive magic blue pill or silver bullet when we can do a few little things every day that add up to a massive high-quality chunk of extra life that funds itself. This book provides 12 controls for people to nudge their lives towards a better direction by influencing our physical, mental and social lives. Those controls are how we: -Eat -Move-Sleep-Think-Learn-Challenge-Connect-Believe-Hang-Chill-Care-Touch. You don't get an instruction manual, because one approach doesn't work for everyone. But you will laugh and learn while getting a simple, effective and non-preachy toolkit. Chapters Include: 1. Why Am I Here And Why Should I Care? 2. Your Personal Systems - One Size Does Not Fit All 3. The History And Future Of Not Dying 4. Prolonging Personal Productivity5. LIVE -Causes Of Aging / Physical And Mental Deterioration-Consequences Of Aging / Physical And Mental Deterioration

American Travel Guide's Tucson, Arizona edition is a great resource for traveling around and enjoying Tucson, Arizona! History, Geography, Entertainment, Night LIfe, Sports, Landmarks, & much more are included. Whether planning a trip or looking to explore more about Tucson, this edition is for you! (Travel, Geography, Entertainment, Reference)

The National Park Service (NPS) was formed on August 25, 1916, and is the U.S. federal agency that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations. The National Park Service publishes various reports and documents each year about environmental issues, park safety, and specific parks around the country. These publications include titles like: Vegetation of Shark Slough, Everglades National Park, Status of Woody Species in Big Cyprus National Preserve, and The Nest Environment of the American Crocodile.

By unleashing the secrets of the brain in the workplace, leaders will be able to develop an engaged and high performance workforce. The book is research based, and the author draws on over one hundred academic books and studies. However it is written in an entertaining, informative, yet practical format designed to provide leaders with motivational tools that they can actually apply in their workplaces to create an environment that is conducive to employee self motivation. The book gives leaders 5 principles through which they can create such an environment.Based on five proven principles of brain science, 'The Brain-Based Boss' is a book of practical workplace-ready tools for leaders who want to motivate their staff to motivate themselves and to contribute to their own personal and professional success.Written in a user-friendly and engaging style, 'The Brain-Based Boss' aims to teach leaders how to encourage their staff to: exhibit greater self discipline; develop a growth-oriented mindset and a goal focused approach to their work and to spend a greater proportion of their working day in an optimal productivity state of "flow".

A great-grandmother is asked by her granddaughter to babysit her eighteen-month-old great-granddaughter while she ran some errands. The day turns into a fun-filled adventure as they both can't wait until Mommy comes home.

In The Soft City, the ethnographer Terry Williams ventures deep into the underground world of sex in New York. The book explores different aspects of the "perverse space" of the city: porn theaters, sex shops, peep shows, restroom cruising, sadomasochism clubs, swingers' events, and many more.

The sociologist Terry Williams returns to the cocaine culture of Harlem in the 1980s and '90s with an ethnographic account of a club he calls Le Boogie Woogie. He explores the life of a cast of characters that includes regulars and bar workers, dealers and hustlers, following social interaction around the club's active bar.

Superintendents play a large role in the formation of relationships and networks within their neighborhood; and yet, no study in social science has focused on them. Williams closes this knowledge gap through ethnographic fieldwork, providing an in-depth analysis of the daily life of superintendents in the lower Harlem area in New York City.

"e;Picturing myself dying in a way I choose myself seems so comforting, healing and heroic. I'd look at my wrists, watch the blood seeping, and be a spectator in my last act of self-determination. By having lost all my self-respect it seems like the last pride I own, determining the time I die."e;-Kyra V., seventeenReading the confessions of a teenager contemplating suicide is uncomfortable, but we must do so to understand why self-harm has become epidemic, especially in the United States. What drives teenagers to self-harm? What makes death so attractive, so liberating, and so inevitable for so many? In Teenage Suicide Notes, sociologist Terry Williams pores over the writings of a diverse group of troubled youths to better grasp the motivations behind teenage suicide and to humanize those at risk of taking their own lives.Williams evaluates young people in rural and urban contexts and across lines of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation. His approach, which combines sensitive portrayals with sociological analysis, adds a clarifying dimension to the fickle and often frustrating behavior of adolescents. Williams reads between the lines of his subjects' seemingly straightforward reflections on alienation, agency, euphoria, and loss, and investigates how this cocktail of emotions can lead to suicide-or not. Rather than treating these notes as exceptional examples of self-expression, Williams situates them at the center of teenage life, linking them to abuse, violence, depression, anxiety, religion, peer pressure, sexual identity, and family dynamics. He captures the currents that turn self-destruction into an act of self-determination and proposes more effective solutions to resolving the suicide crisis.

This vivid account of hustling in New York City explores the sociological reasons why con artists play their game and the psychological tricks they use to win it. Terry Williams and Trevor B. Milton, two prominent sociologists and ethnographers, spent years with New York con artists to uncover their secrets. The result is an unprecedented view into how con games operate, whether in back alleys and side streets or in police precincts and Wall Street boiler rooms.Whether it's selling bootleg goods, playing the numbers, squatting rent-free, scamming tourists with bogus stories, selling knockoffs on Canal Street, or crafting Ponzi schemes, con artists use verbal persuasion, physical misdirection, and sheer charm to convince others to do what they want. Williams and Milton examine this act of performance art and find meaning in its methods to exact bounty from unsuspecting tourists and ordinary New Yorkers alike. Through their sophisticated exploration of the personal experiences and influences that create a successful hustler, they build a portrait of unusual emotional and psychological depth. Their work also offers a new take on structure and opportunity, showing how the city's unique urban and social architecture lends itself to the perfect con.

Walking in the power of God is awesome.The world today is replenished with fornication, idolatry, adultery, effeminate spirits, thieves, drunkards, covetousness, extortioners, revilers, and abusers of themselves with mankind of which any can inherit the Kingdom of God. I Cor. 6:9-10These areas in life can be overcomed by walking in the Power of God and by having our mind, heart, and soul devoted to him.We as believers must Know that this is the season that we are to come out of the flesh because the time is now for our walk in power to be put to the test. We are faced with many challenges daily that allows us to wonder what is power or am I really walking in power? Well, power is strength, might, liberty, control, stability, authority, and the ability to flourish in all depthness of Christ.God's word includes an amazing abundance of information about walking in the Power of God. Many books of the bible stresses the importance of walking in the Power of God, either directly or indirectly. This book is by no means exhaustive, and I encourage you to dive into the Word of God and be delighted in learning more about him and your walk of life in his power.

Complex projects are often the most high-profile projects within an organization. How can early warning signs be identified and acted upon, so that problems are avoided and projects are successful in delivering the expected value for their owners and other stakeholders? What signals should we look for? Looking for early warning signs takes more than a keen eye. Collaborating with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim and the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom, Ole Jonny Klakegg, Terry Williams, Derek Walker, Bjørn Andersen, and Ole Morten Magnussen have expanded on their research of governance frameworks and guidelines as well as provided interviews with experts and case studies from Australia, Norway, and the United Kingdom. This international report identifies early warning signs in highly complex projects and offers tips on how to combat them.

Governance Frameworks for Public Project Development and Estimation includes a thorough investigation into theoretical perspectives and theories, mainly from economy and social sciences. Thirty-two aspects of theory are assessed, and it is indicated whether each framework design seems to have put weak or strong emphasis on each of these aspects. The purpose of the report is to seek better understanding of how the governance framework and the projects interact and how the framework influences the project. Governance frameworks help to improve the initial and fundamental design of projects as well as avoid some of the common problems related to the implementation of projects. Implementation of governance frameworks represents a potential for considerable savings and added value by making cost estimation and time planning more effective.

It is widely acknowledged that traditional Project Management techniques are no longer sufficient, as projects become more complex and clienta s demand reduced timescales. Problems that arise include inadequate planning and risk analysis, ineffective project monitoring and control, and uninformed post--mortem analysis.

"Since 1982, sociologist Terry Williams has spent days, weeks, and months "hanging out" with a teenage cocaine ring in cocaine bars, after-hours clubs, on street corners, in crack houses and in their h"