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Forever Optimistic

Author : Robert S. Brams

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 216 pages

File Size : 27,7 MB

Release : 2021-06-29

Category : Self-Help

ISBN : 1510766170

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Join a high-powered lawyer on his fight for life against brain cancer and his continuing efforts to remain Forever Optimistic. At age fifty-five, Robert S. Brams, a former college athlete, was in perfect health. Bob was blessed with a beautiful family, including his wife and two children. He had a circle of close friends and a hard-driving international law practice as partner at one of the most prestigious firms in Washington, DC. But after a fateful car accident, an MRI scan revealed a shadow on his brain that suddenly shattered his carefully constructed life. Brams was diagnosed with brain cancer—one of the most overwhelming challenges a person can face. What would the future hold for Brams and his family? Brams has been through six extraordinary years—four hospitals, two brain surgeries, a seizure, a stroke, a coma, life support, ICUs, radiation, chemotherapy, various rehab regimens, a hemophilia diagnosis, and countless MRIs. With all this, Brams’s insurers categorized him as a “Catastrophic Loss.” Despite all that’s happened, Brams is still in the fight, and he is determined to achieve an important purpose—to help beat brain cancer. While his legal career has ended, his continuing struggles have caused him to reprioritize his values and change his perspective on what really matters in life. Having stood at death’s door and now confronted with an uncertain prognosis, Brams’s insights on life, love, family, education, business, and finding your passion take on a distinctive power and clarity. Readers from every walk of life looking for inspiration and motivation will find it in Brams’s remarkable story. Struggles, setbacks, and failures in his youth were “no fun,” but with optimism and determination, Brams found his best path and ultimately succeeded. He reminds us that it’s not where you start, but rather where you finish. Inspiring, powerful, and eminently readable, Forever Optimistic: Fighting Brain Cancer, Finding Your Best Path, and Leading a Life With Purpose is by turns moving, humorous, and brimming with hard-won wisdom. Brams’s story is one of remarkable courage in the face of tragedy. Please support the brain cancer fight at www.1MBBC.com.



The Forever Optimist

Author : Katie George

Publisher : Smashwords

Page : 334 pages

File Size : 37,30 MB

Release : 2018-02-19

Category :

ISBN : 9781370962051

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In the tropical beach town of Sierra, Florida, an optimistic florist named Leah Acosta is as happy as can be: She lives near the renowned turquoise waters off Florida's Emerald Coast, has a rewarding social life, and dreams of making the world a better place. Leah is content with her endless supply of flowers and dreams until an afternoon when she witnesses something she is most certainly not meant to see.Suddenly, Leah's concrete optimism is shaken, and she finds herself drawn to a group of people whose stories are interconnected in a way that intrigues her and leaves her questioning her part in their world. Therefore, Leah is introduced to people who are unlike her in every way: the pessimistic lawyer, Stephen; the narcissistic housewife, Amelia; and two secretive newlyweds, Julian and Constance.Through her newfound connections, Leah uncovers the truth about the small town around her, all while trying to remain true to herself.





Revelations in Verse

Author : James Patrick McCaffrey

Publisher : Virtualbookworm Publishing

Page : 152 pages

File Size : 43,87 MB

Release : 2003-07

Category :

ISBN : 9781589394018

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Our journey through life is an abventure - a complex mixture of circumstances, events and experiences. Along the way, we encounter people, places and things that through our unique sensitivities cause us to form concepts, opinions and feelings - personal revelations generated by the words, thoughts, attitude and actions of others - to form who we are, how we think and act and what we're all about. At times, we may encounter an isolated incident that impacts upon our life like no other, leaving behind an impression never to be forgotten, to serve as a giant barometer of comparison for other events and experiences to follow - whether they are imagine or real - happy or sad - humorous, mystical or magical, or whatever - to remain as a concrete reference life can either be a fountain of joy, a pit of unbearable anguish, or an unpredictable couldron of unforeseeable circumstances - revelations that, over time, tend to mold and form our own personality, character and attitude. This collection of verse is representative of some of the revelations and experiences perceived and personalized by this writer - and what this book is all about - for the most part.



David Stirling

Author : Gavin Mortimer

Publisher : Constable

Page : 485 pages

File Size : 27,31 MB

Release : 2022-05-26

Category : History

ISBN : 1472134567

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Aristocrat, gambler, innovator and special forces legend, the life of David Stirling should need no retelling. His formation of the Special Air Service in the summer of 1941 led to a new form of warfare and Stirling is remembered as the father of special forces soldiering. But was he really a military genius or in fact a shameless self-publicist who manipulated people, and the truth, for this own ends? In this gripping and controversial biography Gavin Mortimer analyses Stirling's complex character: the childhood speech impediment that shaped his formative years, the pressure from his overbearing mother, his fraught relationship with his brother, Bill, and the jealousy and inferiority he felt in the presence of his SAS second-in-command, the cold-blooded killer Paddy Mayne. Stirling lived until old age, receiving a knighthood and plaudits from military forces around the world before his death in 1990. Yet as Mortimer dazzlingly shows, while Stirling was instrumental in selling the SAS to Churchill and senior officers, it was Mayne who really carried the regiment in the early days. Stirling was at best an incompetent soldier and at worst a foolhardy one, who jeopardised his men's live with careless talk and hare-brained missions. Drawing on interviews with SAS veterans who fought with Stirling and men who worked with him on his post-war projects, and examining recently declassified governments files about Stirling's involvement in Aden, Libya and GB75, Mortimer's riveting biography is incisive, bold, honest and written with his customary narrative panache. Impeccably researched and with the courage to challenge the mythical SAS 'brand', Mortimer brings to bear his unparalleled expertise as WW2's premier special forces historian to dig beneath the legend and reveal the real David Stirling, a man who dared and deceived.



Chasing Youth Culture and Getting it Right

Author : Tina Wells

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 226 pages

File Size : 19,61 MB

Release : 2011-03-29

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1118061667

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Understand and market to the newest wave of millennials Whether you're a business professional trying to decode the $43 billion youth market, a marketer looking for a message that connects, or an entrepreneur trying to develop youth-oriented products, Chasing Youth Culture and Getting It Right gives you an unparalleled field guide to the newest wave of millennials and their mindsets. Inside this unique book, you'll meet four major tribes?the Wired Techie, The Conformist But Somewhat Paradoxical Preppy, The Always-Mellow Alternative, and The Cutting-Edge Independent?and understand their key traits, likes and dislikes, and what kind of adult they will likely become. Includes many examples of companies, brands, and organizations who chased the youth demographic and got it right, or who failed to nail their audience Understand such concepts as Warholism, Tweenabees, Hand-me-ups, Massclusivity, The Facebook Effect, and Instantity Author has won many honors and much media recognition as a young entrepreneur and youth marketer to watch Want to understand the next generation? Get Chasing Youth Culture and Getting It Right and discover how to reach this fascinating and elusive demographic.



King Cotton in Modern America

Author : D. Clayton Brown

Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi

Page : 467 pages

File Size : 50,76 MB

Release : 2011-02-25

Category : History

ISBN : 1604737999

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King Cotton in Modern America places the once kingly crop in historical perspective, showing how "cotton culture" was actually part of the larger culture of the United States despite many regarding its cultivation and sources as hopelessly backward. Leaders in the industry, acting through the National Cotton Council, organized the various and often conflicting segments to make the commodity a viable part of the greater American economy. The industry faced new challenges, particularly the rise of foreign competition in production and the increase of man-made fibers in the consumer market. Modernization and efficiency became key elements for cotton planters. The expansion of cotton- growing areas into the Far West after 1945 enabled American growers to compete in the world market. Internal dissension developed between the traditional cotton growing regions in the South and the new areas in the West, particularly over the USDA cotton allotment program. Mechanization had profound social and economic impacts. Through music and literature, and with special emphasis placed on the meaning of cotton to African Americans in the lore of Memphis's Beale Street, blues music, and African American migration off the land, author D. Clayton Brown carries cotton's story to the present.



New York Magazine

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Publisher :

Page : 132 pages

File Size : 30,22 MB

Release : 1992-03-30

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ISBN :

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New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.



Cervantes' Los Trabajos de Persiles Y Sigismunda

Author : Maria Alberta Sacchetti

Publisher : Tamesis

Page : 222 pages

File Size : 24,64 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9781855660779

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Multidimensional characters, contrasting perspectives and ironic manipulations produce a kind of 'generic hybridisation' which exposes the fallacies of this type of romance fiction."--Jacket.



The Optimist Creed

Author : Christian D. Larson

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 771 pages

File Size : 50,35 MB

Release : 2012-05-24

Category : Self-Help

ISBN : 1101589094

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The first-ever collection of writings by Christian D. Larson, author of the famous “Optimist Creed” and one of the twentieth-century’s pioneers of motivational thought. Contemporary research has shown that optimistic people experience longer and healthier lives, better relationships, and higher incomes. Generations before such findings, however, inspirational writer Christian D. Larson showed an amazing grasp of the life-changing power of gratitude and optimism. Today, Larson is known worldwide for his powerful meditation, “The Optimist Creed,” and other classics of spiritual living. But no single volume has collected his greatest writings. Here, at last, is a long-overdue anthology that makes Larson’s foundational writings available to the countless readers who already know his name and work. Like no one else of his day, Larson understood the metaphysical and psychological dimensions of grateful living – or, as he famously put it, “an attitude of gratitude.” Affirmative thought, Larson reasoned, sets in motion unseen forces, both spiritual and psychical, and aids in manifesting our desires. The Optimist Creed features complete editions of Larson’s most deeply affecting works, each redesigned and reset. It contains: The Pathway of Roses; Your Forces and How to Use Them (the work that features his original “Optimist Creed”); Mastery of Self; The Ideal Made Real; and Just Be Glad.