A Motivational life story about the author Tamika McClain, In this book, she discloses stories from her past impacted by abuse, neglect, sex, drugs, pain, and resentment. She evokes memories of being abandoned as an infant to struggling through childhood and life to discover her purpose. This narrative is a great example that teaches how to build upon the pain and failures of the past to make changes for the better, despite the storms that rage in your life. "Life is what you make it, it's not about what happens to you, but about how you respond to what happens to you. When life offers you lemons, make lemonade from the lemons and enjoy the drink," says Tamika. Embracing your past can help close the doors behind you and release the burdens that may be weighing you down. In this book, Tamika gives her own personal advice on relationships, dealing with abuse, motivating stories and a few poems to help others that may be struggling through life, or going through personal stories in life. Over the years, she learned to turn her pain to purpose, and her breakdowns to breakthroughs. She expresses how pain makes winning so great and how all the pain only made her stronger ready to live her best life. This life memoir tells a story of turning your painful past into a positive present and finding purpose through pain. She learned in order to succeed, she needed to kick self-pity in the butt forever. No one is born a mistake, everyone has a purpose, and finding that purpose is central to happiness. Tamika tells readers how they too can move FROM NOTHING TO SOMETHING. This book is written in a easy storytelling, yet direct ways that challenges anyone to defeat the painful demons from their past and live their best life forever.

This is a provocative account of the astounding new answers to the most basic philosophical question: Where did the universe come from and how will it end?

Joseph's grandfather transforms his blanket many times over the years, but what can be done when the final item is lost? Gilman's version of this Yiddish folk tale won the 1993 Ruth Schwartz Award. When Joseph was a baby, his grandfather made him a wonderful blanket. But as Joseph grows older, the blanket becomes tattered and worn. Throw it out! cries Joseph's mother. Luckily, Grandpa is an extraordinary tailor. He can fix anything! And so with a snip! snip! here, and a few stitches there, Grandpa transforms the treasured blanket into a jacket, a vest, a Sabbath tie, a handkerchief, and finally a beautiful button. But when the button is lost, even Grandpa can't help. After all, how can you make something from nothing?In a rich and loving portrait of shtetl life, Phoebe Gilman presents a traditional Jewish folktale about family love and ingenuity that will warm the hearts of readers young and old.

Through the simple act of a haircut, readers are taken on a geographical and emotional journey into the lives of humans experiencing homelessness in different cities across the world. “In this uplifting book, Coombes deftly illustrates how reaching out and listening can break down barriers in an often indifferent world.” —Booklist Online “Joshua’s stories show the power that empathy and compassion have to turn a common, everyday act into something transformative. They are the revelations of connection.” —Michael Sheen, actor and activist When you're on the fringes of society, being noticed can mean everything. In 2015, while working at a London hair salon, Joshua Coombes took to the streets with his scissors to build relationships with people sleeping rough in the capital. This inspired him to begin posting transformative images on social media to amplify their voices. These stories resonated and thousands of people got involved in their own way. #DoSomethingForNothing was born--a movement that encourages people to connect their skills and time to those who need it. Via the simple act of a haircut, readers are taken on a geographical and emotional journey into the lives of humans experiencing homelessness in different cities across the world. Featuring never-before-seen photographs and all-new writing, Do Something for Nothing explores themes of love, acceptance, shame, and perseverance, while inviting us to see ourselves in one another and dissolve the negative stigmas surrounding homelessness. Additionally, a portion of the proceeds from this book will be donated to organizations dedicated to assisting unsheltered people.

Something from nothing: the design process.

Informal, easy-to-follow instructions on transforming castoffs into splendid gifts and decorator pieces for the home.

This is Book one of The Human Unification Trilogy. It begins with taking the reader on a time travel journey. The journey begins at the inception of time and ends at the present moment. Just prior to the journey readers come to understand the characteristics of an empty void and a mistake made by modern day physicists. After the journey, how matter forms from nothing is exactly broken down. One by one the mysteries of cosmology are resolved. It resolves the Pioneer Anomaly. Provides more information about blackholes than any other source, including what is available from leading space agencies. It also provides a beginning because it ends with a computer system which makes the human race significantly more advanced. Book two of the trilogy is called Reconsidering the Fermi Paradox.

This work offers an explanation of fundamental facts of existence in purely philosophical terms, without appeal either to theology or cosmology. It will provoke and intrigue anyone who wonders about these questions.

Do we have free will? How can we know anything? What is justice? Why is there evil in the world? What is the source of truth? Is it possible for God not to exist? Can we really believe what we see? These are some of the questions that have intrigued the world's greatest thinkers over the ages. They are questions that make us think about the way we live, work, relate to each other, and see the world. In elegant and accessible prose, the eminent philosopher Leszek Kolakowski explores the essence of these ideas and their ongoing relevance as he introduces us to the great figures of Western thought: from Socrates to St. Augustine, Descartes to Nietzsche, and beyond. Reflecting on the great issues that animate our lives -- good and evil, truth and beauty, faith and the soul, free will and consciousness -- Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? offers a guided tour of Western philosophy by one of the world's greatest living experts.

Akiko Miyakoshi’s enchanting new book explores how it feels to harbor a secret dream. People from all over the world come and go at the gracious innkeeper’s little hotel, some even becoming friends over the years. Only, sometimes, the innkeeper feels the desire to travel far away himself. He longs to pack a big bag and journey from one unfamiliar town to another. He imagines stopping to visit his friends. And having wonderful and unexpected experiences. The innkeeper continues to go about his daily routine at his hotel. But, someday, he is sure, he will explore the world. For every child — and adult — who yearns for what lies beyond the horizon.