Opus Optimus

Opus Optimus
Author: Robert V. Smith
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2017-05-02
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1632991179

Don’t just age, engage. ​In Opus Optimus, author Robert V. Smith provides an inspirational guide about how to live your life to the fullest, particularly if you are approaching old age or who have been diagnosed with a terminal illness. Drawing on the amazing potential shown by the survivors of Near Death Experiences(NDEs) for transformation in this life, Smith has created the Opus Optimus model to help you get the most out of your later days. Smith’s model builds upon several important elements and principles such as: •Developing keen intuition and the power to connect with others •Finding goodness and value in all days •Committing to doing and ensuring good •Forgoing materialism •Regretting and fearing nothing, including death To illustrate these principles, Smith provides exemplars—including fascinating public figures like Michelle Obama and the late Randy Pausch—whose commendable lives show readers how they too can contribute. With advice from the practical to the spiritual, Opus Optimus will help you renew your later years.

Devoted Academics

Devoted Academics
Author: Robert Smith
Publisher: Ethics International Press
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2023-11-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1871891302

Devoted Academics is guided by the author’s 45-year career in tenured faculty posts (chemical sciences), and significant management and administrative positions at six U.S. research universities. The book is both a personal journey, and a discussion of the challenges, successes, and failures inherent in academic life. In all cases, the author stresses how important an ethical sense of responsibility, accountability, and the development of character are to successful service in academic roles. Devoted Academics is an inspiration to young scholars, contemplating a life in the academy; mid-career academics who can learn from communication and other strategies as they consider future career options; and older academics, who will enjoy comparing their experiences with those of the author and his colleagues.

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy
Author: Christer Bruun
Publisher:
Total Pages: 929
Release: 2015
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0195336461

The study of inscriptions is critical for anyone seeking to understand the Roman world, whether they regard themselves as literary scholars, historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, or religious scholars. The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy is the fullest collection of scholarship on the study and history of Latin epigraphy produced to date.

The Village (Bookburners Season 2 Episode 9)

The Village (Bookburners Season 2 Episode 9)
Author: Margaret Dunlap
Publisher: Serial Box
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2017-09-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1682100898

Desperate for information, the Society turns to the mysterious Network for help – using Liam as bait. A train to Sweden takes a sudden turn down memory lane as the hacker’s past horrors are unlocked. This episode is brought to you by author Margaret Dunlap, who thoroughly enjoys trains, despite appearances. Magic is real, and hungry—trapped in ancient texts and artifacts, only a few who discover it survive to fight back. Detective Sal Brooks is a survivor. Freshly awake to just what dangers are lurking, she joins a Vatican-backed black-ops anti-magic squad: Team Three of the Societas Librorum Occultorum. Together they stand between humanity and magical apocalypse. Some call them the Bookburners. They don’t like the label. "The Village" is the ninth episode of Bookburners Season 2, presented by Serial Box Publishing. This serial will unfold in 13 episodes.