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If Only You Could Bottle It

Author : Jack Nusan Porter

Publisher : Academic Studies PRess

Page : 543 pages

File Size : 44,73 MB

Release : 2023-09-12

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1644699028

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Told through essays, memoirs, and other musings, this is the story of a radical Jew, academic, and educator from his birth in Ukraine during the Holocaust through the radical 60s and 70s, to the present day as he fights anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, xenophobia, and hate. Internationally known in Holocaust, genocide, and Jewish studies, Jack Nusan Porter was born in Maniewicz, Ukraine to Jewish Partisans in the 1940s. Through this engaging and thoughtful memoir, we follow Porter as he recounts his personal journey from a DP camp in Linz, Austria to an idyllic childhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he attended Hebrew day school under Reb Twersk. Porter masterfully details his radicalism in the politically and sociologically turbulent 1960s which would later influence his academic work on genocide, Holocaust studies, and international human rights. Constantly re-inventing himself, readers are treated to engaging anecdotes as they navigate through Porter's highs, lows, and in-betweens.



What Were They Thinking?

Author : Robert McMath

Publisher : Crown Currency

Page : 257 pages

File Size : 11,29 MB

Release : 2011-04-27

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0307793648

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Those ignorant of the mistakes of the past are bound to lose a lot of money. That's why Bob McMath founded the New Products Showcase and Learning Center--a "Smithsonian for Stinkers," Business Week dubbed it. There, executives from top corporations pay huge amounts of money to rummage through some 80,000 products gone awry. Their mission: to avoid the misguided, expensive, and occasionally ludicrous mistakes that trip up even top companies. In What Were They Thinking?, McMath shows you how to avoid such mistakes, with more that eighty marketing lessons he's learned from his long experience with clods and clunkers. As People magazine put it "McMath knows his goods--and his uglies, too"--and here he shows you how to: Steer clear of the number one killer of new products (page 129) Develop a marketing campaign based on a "Significant Point of Difference" (page 183) Take advantage of eight "Hot Buttons for Success in the Millennium" (page 101) Keep out of the "Buy-This-If-You're-a-Loser School of Marketing" (page 28) Combat "Corporate Alzheimer's" (page 4) and much more !



Hindsight

Author : Melanie Casey

Publisher : Pantera Press

Page : 293 pages

File Size : 31,93 MB

Release : 2013-05-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1921997214

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AN ENGROSSING AND TERRIFYING RIDE THROUGH A SLEEPY COASTAL TOWN TORN ASUNDER BY A PREDATORY MURDERER CASS LEHMAN HAS A TERRIFYING GIFT... SHE SEES WHAT OTHER'S CANT... A chilling tale of a young woman cursed with supernatural powers and a grief-stricken detective who end up both an unlikely team and unwitting victims. The first novel in Melanie Casey's paranormal crime procedural series disarms readers at every turn and interweaves contemporary small town life with references to ancient Greek classics. Cass has a type of retro-cognition. When she passes over the spot where someone died a violent death, she flashes back to the last few minutes of their life and experiences it as if she were them – seeing, smelling, hearing and feeling what they felt before they died. AN ENGROSSING AND TERRIFYING RIDE THROUGH A SLEEPY COASTAL TOWN TORN ASUNDER BY A PREDATORY MURDERER CASS LEHMAN HAS A TERRIFYING GIFT... SHE SEES WHAT OTHER'S CANT... A chilling tale of a young woman cursed with supernatural powers and a grief-stricken detective who end up both an unlikely team and unwitting victims. The first novel in Melanie Casey's paranormal crime procedural series disarms readers at every turn and interweaves contemporary small town life with references to ancient Greek classics. Cass has a type of retro-cognition. When she passes over the spot where someone died a violent death, she flashes back to the last few minutes of their life and experiences it as if she were them – seeing, smelling, hearing and feeling what they felt before they died. AN ENGROSSING AND TERRIFYING RIDE THROUGH A SLEEPY COASTAL TOWN TORN ASUNDER BY A PREDATORY MURDERER CASS LEHMAN HAS A TERRIFYING GIFT... SHE SEES WHAT OTHER'S CANT... A chilling tale of a young woman cursed with supernatural powers and a grief-stricken detective who end up both an unlikely team and unwitting victims. The first novel in Melanie Casey's paranormal crime procedural series disarms readers at every turn and interweaves contemporary small town life with references to ancient Greek classics. Cass has a type of retro-cognition. When she passes over the spot where someone died a violent death, she flashes back to the last few minutes of their life and experiences it as if she were them – seeing, smelling, hearing and feeling what they felt before they died.



If Only You Would Ask

Author : Eileen Opatz Berge

Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.

Page : 134 pages

File Size : 43,12 MB

Release : 2020-05-27

Category : Family & Relationships

ISBN : 1627878122

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When visiting an elderly relative or friend, are you often at a loss for what to talk about? After the initial pleasantries, do the minutes drag on? You may very well love this person, but find yourself struggling to carry on a conversation. An hour can seem endless. If only you could think of something interesting to talk about! If Only You Would Ask transforms this situation! Open to any page and soon find yourself engaged in meaningful conversation. With forty-two topics and over four hundred questions, If Only You Would Ask provides a framework for tapping into memories that may not have been thought about or talked about for years! You and the person you are visiting will both enjoy your time together. In fact, you will look forward to your next get together. Every person has stories to share, If Only You Would Ask! About the Author Mother-daughter duo Eileen Opatz Berger and Joan Berger Bachman teamed up for five years to make this timeless resource available for all those who spend time with the elderly. Eileen Opatz Berger graduated from the College of St. Benedict and the University of Wis/River Falls. Presently she teaches English as a second language. Along with her family, foreign students have been the joy of her life. Favorite pastimes include travel, writing, and tennis. She currently divides her time between White Bear Lake, Minnesota and Sun City West, Arizona. Joan Berger Bachman is extremely pleased and proud to be coauthoring a book with her mom! As a teenager, Joan recalls her mother's advice: "When you are in a social situation, always make an effort to ask each person three questions. This shows that you are interested in what they have to say…" In other words, give people the opportunity to talk about themselves! Generally, people are pleased to share, and you will have deflected the attention from yourself! So it comes as no real surprise that four decades later, she has coauthored a book filled with questions to promote quality conversations! Joan resides with her husband John in Rochester, Minnesota. Proud mother of three grown children and grandmother to five, she is grateful for family, for health, and for friends who continue to enrich her life.



Blood

Author : Ellen Datlow

Publisher : Open Road Media

Page : 338 pages

File Size : 47,57 MB

Release : 2023-11-14

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 150408876X

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A collection of “mesmerizing tales, each one creepier than the next” that go beyond the traditional vampire myths (Library Journal). When we think of vampires, an image instantly arises: fangs sunk deep into the throat of the victim. But bloodsucking is merely one form of vampirism. For this brilliantly original anthology, multiple award-winning editor Ellen Datlow solicited stories from many of the most powerfully dark voices in contemporary horror, who conjure tales that will chill readers to the marrow. In addition to the traditional fanged creatures, Datlow presents stories about the leeching of emotion, the draining of the soul, and other dark deeds of predation and exploitation, infestation, and evisceration . . . tales of life essence, literal or metaphorical, stolen. Seventeen stories by such acclaimed authors as Elizabeth Bear, Richard Bowes, Kathe Koja, Margo Lanagan, Carol Emshwiller, and Lisa Tuttle redefine the terror of vampirism.



Late Bloomers

Author : Deepa Varadarajan

Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks

Page : 369 pages

File Size : 21,56 MB

Release : 2023-05-02

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 059349802X

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An Indian American family is turned upside down when the parents split up thirty-six years into their arranged marriage​ in this witty, big-hearted debut. “Equal parts funny and heartbreaking, Late Bloomers is a charming story about starting over, stumbling, and finding yourself at any age.”—Jennifer Close, author of Marrying the Ketchups "I have a soft spot for underdogs. And late bloomers. You’ve told me a lot of things about yourself, so let me tell you something about me." After thirty-six years of a dutiful but unhappy arranged marriage, recently divorced Suresh and Lata Raman find themselves starting new paths in life. Suresh is trying to navigate the world of online dating on a website that caters to Indians and is striking out at every turn—until he meets a mysterious, devastatingly attractive younger woman who seems to be smitten with him. Lata is enjoying her newfound independence, but she's caught off guard when a professor in his early sixties starts to flirt with her. Meanwhile, Suresh and Lata's daughter, Priya, thinks her father's online pursuits are distasteful even as she embarks upon a clandestine affair of her own. And their son, Nikesh, pretends at a seemingly perfect marriage with his law-firm colleague and their young son, but hides the truth of what his relationship really entails. Over the course of three weeks in August, the whole family will uncover one another's secrets, confront the limits of love and loyalty, and explore life's second chances. Charming, funny, and moving, Late Bloomers introduces a delightful new voice in fiction with the story of four individuals trying to understand how to be happy in their own lives—and as a family.



The Method

Author : Alex Cavazos

Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

Page : 693 pages

File Size : 13,21 MB

Release : 2022-08-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1638746400

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The Method that Alan was taught had to have so much concentration and imagination about what was on the script, and that nothing else matters but being able to be that character and living the role, not just acting it, putting himself into a mode to where he would visualize and feel so much more than any other actor could by staying in the role throughout the whole shoot, living the character as if he transformed into them--mentally and physically--not knowing what the consequences could be. By learning such a profound way of acting, he struggles to be what he once was, before all the characters he's had to be, using this Method.



The Telegraph Book of Champions

Author : The Telegraph

Publisher : Aurum

Page : 423 pages

File Size : 47,83 MB

Release : 2014-09-04

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 1781313865

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How do you achieve sporting immortality? How do you develop a winning mentality? What seprates the best from the rest? While sporting greatness is for the few, there is much that the rest of us can learn from them. From the era-defining brilliance of Muhammad Ali to the tactical genius of Sir Alex Ferguson, gathered together here for the first time are the rare insights into what made some of the best sports men and women from the past century. Drawn from the Telegraph archives, this collection of interviews, contemporary accounts and first-person articles covering everyone from Michael Phelps to Dame Ellen MacArthur, Roger Federer to Michael Schumacher, Sir Steve Redgrave to Nicole Cooke, give a rare glimpse of how these individuals conquered the world. Through the snow, mud, ice and sun of the sporting calendar, TheTelegraph Book of Champions features one hundred champions from thirty-one sports. Side by side, in this unique collection, they line up as a reminder of what it takes to be the best, why success at the very top is only for the few, and what the rest of us mere mortals can learn from them.



Second Chances

Author : Minna Howard

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 278 pages

File Size : 28,19 MB

Release : 2017-07-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 178669686X

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Ready to roll the dice again on love? A warm novel about starting again and finding love when you least expect it. Perfect for fans of Trisha ashley and Katie Fforde. Succumbing to a rather clichéd midlife crisis, Dan Haywood swaps his family for an expensive red sports car and a younger woman. After 24 years of marriage, his wife Sarah is left to pick up the pieces. Trying her best to re-style her life, comfort hurt children, make time for 'helpful' friends and maintain her burgeoning career as a dress designer, Sarah feels pulled in a hundred directions. And it doesn't help that obstacles – mostly in the form of other middle-aged men – seem to conspire against her. Proud of herself for moving house and starting to build an independent life, she is shocked when Robert Maynard, her rather dashing new next-door neighbour, insists that the house was promised to him. Now she is destined to be pulled into his life by events beyond her control. After one failed marriage, will she be able to find happiness again? And do second chances really come to those who wait? This book was previously published as The Orchid Lover under the name Mary De Laszlo.



Integrity and Historical Research

Author : Tony Gibbons

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 238 pages

File Size : 15,97 MB

Release : 2012-03-12

Category : History

ISBN : 1136637729

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There have been serious debates between historians, novelists and filmmakers as to how best present historical narratives. When writers and filmmakers talk of using historical research with integrity, what exactly do they mean? Integrity and Historical Research examines this question in detail. The first chapter discusses the concept of integrity. The chapters that follow reflect on this philosophical treatment in the light of fiction and film that deals with history in a number of ways. How should writers and filmmakers use lives? Can, and may, people who are now dead and who may have lived long ago, be defamed? The authors include academics, historians, social historians, medievalists, oral historians, literary theorists, historical novelists and script writers. They examine the theoretical influences and practical choices that involve and concern writers and filmmakers who rely on historical research. The desire to be accurate may often conflict with the need to produce a work that goes beyond the mere depiction of events in order to excite the interest of readers and to hold that interest. At the same time there is a developing emphasis on historians, to write well in clear, accessible prose, which may involve using the novelists’ techniques. How much license may be given to writers of fiction and filmmakers in their depiction of historical characters and events? This book begins to answer this question, while inviting further discussion.