Jim Ryan

A guide to 20 of popular walking routes on the MacGillycuddy's Reeks contains full-colour maps specially commissioned from the Ordnance Survey, photographs and map references. This guide also encompasses the history of the area, its geology and natural history, its place names and people. It offers useful information on travel and accommodation.

Carrauntoohil and MacGillycuddy's Reeks

Street Poet Blues

Have you ever had the feeling you were being guided down a specific path in life? A real, deep in your guts, crap in your pants inclination? What if you came to believe you were placed on this earth to do something that would change everything? What would you do? What would you be willing to do? Everything is connected. This much Jim Ryan figured out at a young age. But he also foresaw the application of this physical property in the digital world—a calling to connect every person on the planet to each other and to the collective intelligence of human kind. Through the realization of this vision, each of us can now do more, get more, access more than ever before thanks to a device we hold in our hand. But like many great discoveries, this new connectivity has a dark side. In this fast-paced, introspective memoir, written by one of the world’s defining players in the mobile revolution, Ryan takes us along on his quest to deliver what he first imagined in 1987; something he called the Total Interactive Communications Device (the TICD)—something we have all come to know as the smartphone.

Carpe Data: CONNECT

We are all susceptible to negative external influences, but hidden within each of us is a spiritual power that is waiting to be rediscovered. In this insightful and practical book, based on the author’s personal reflections and life-long experience as a pupil and teacher of spirituality, Jim Ryan presents a unique examination of the mind as it is now, together with practical ways to develop a more spiritual way of thinking and being. Firstly, he shows you how to recognize and change the five negative states of mind: the stone mind, the hollow mind, the coral mind, the fragrant mind and the sponge mind. Then he sets out the pathway to change, helping you to rediscover nine positive mind states, including the wisdom mind, the love mind, the divine mind and ultimately the angelic mind. Aimed at all spiritual thinkers, regardless of religious background, this book shows you how to move from one mind state and how to reconnect with your inner spiritual power.

A journey into awareness

The Spiritual Mind

The St Jude's Book Club members have had enough of reading the same old tripe, week in, week out. Page after page of lacklustre rubbish has taken its toll on their beleaguered club and they need something new for their energetic little group.When one of them suggests they write something themselves it is taken on board and soon Helen, the local lollipop lady and crazy cat woman, has come up with the idea that they should write their own version of Dick Whittington and then put the show on at the local village hall.What follows is a light-hearted and amusing tale of friendship and love, jealousy and courage, all played out with a smattering of ambition which is beyond most of the cast.But can the Book Club really pull it off? Are they able to put their petty differences aside to make a success of the show? And will they all still be on speaking terms come the night of the performance? Only time will tell.

The Book Club

Lorna Earl

Andy Hargreaves

Este libro se basa en una amplia investigación de carácter internacional sobre cómo los centros de enseñanza en general, y los de secundaria en particular, están educando a los adolescentes. Escrito de una manera fundamentada y alejada de tópicos y lugares comunes, a la vez que accesible y provocadora, este libro explora algunas alternativas para mejorar la educación de los adolescentes teniendo en cuenta los siguientes aspectos: la relación entre las culturas de la escuela y la necesidad de promover un cambio en los jóvenes, los sistemas de apoyo y las propuestas organizativas para realizar una mejora de la enseñanza y aprendizaje de los adolescentes, la necesidad de marcos curriculares alternativos que puedan guiar a los adolescentes a cambiar sus prácticas de enseñanza con los adolescentes y, por último, sugerencias para realizar una evaluación alternativa que reconozca los diferentes tipos de inteligencias y las variadas formas de aprender de los adolescentes. Estos aspectos se presentan a partir de evidenciar las limitaciones y deficiencias de las actuales prácticas docentes y la necesidad de llevar a cabo experiencias educativas alternativas con los adolescentes

Jim Ryan

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