Author : Shari Caudron
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 33,44 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
This book is highly entertaining, but it also provides significant insight into contemporary life in America. Caudron reveals why people are indulging in their fanatical passions, and how that indulgence is transforming community life.
Author : Bakari Sellers
Publisher : Quill Tree Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,53 MB
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780063082854
This inspiring picture book by New York Times bestselling author Bakari Sellers is a tribute to the family and community that help make us who we are. Perfect for sharing and gifting. When you meet someone for the first time, they might ask, Who are your people? and Where are you from? Children are shaped by their ancestors, and this book celebrates the village it takes to raise a child. In the vein of I Am Enough and Eyes That Kiss in the Corners, this powerful picture book with beautiful illustrations by Reggie Brown is a joyful recognition of the people and places that help define young readers and adults alike. Don't miss this picture book debut from Bakari Sellers, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller My Vanishing Country: A Memoir.
Author : Anne Dranitsaris Ph.D
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 17,49 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1402274017
An energetic, step-by-step program that helps you move from surviving to thriving, live more authentically, and achieve your potential. Integrating brain science with a fresh take on how your personality affects your behavior, this book provides a clear roadmap, based on your brain, to break patterns of behavior that get in your way. This book: Provides insight into how you can use the abilities you were born with to achieve what you were born for Discusses eight personality styles through highly entertaining and transformative stories Allows you to identify which style is truest to you, and how it influences your behavior Too many of us live on autopilot, just trying to make it through the day. Who Are You Mean to Be? offers a way to put us in the driver's seat of our lives, providing a brand-new approach to living authentically and achieving our potential. It's a must-have for anyone working to understand themselves and others in order to live a more satisfying, fulfilling life.
Author : Nancy Kay Shapiro
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 39,99 MB
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429908769
A powerful debut about a young man whose denial of his past nearly destroys the new life he seeks Shaking off his hellish adolescence in a nowhere Nebraska town (and leaving a beloved younger sister to fend for herself in the same hostile environment), Seth McKenna escapes to make a new reality for himself as a struggling artist in Manhattan. When he falls hard for Jim Glaser, an alluring older man who is astonished to find in Seth the second love of his life, it seems simpler to gloss over his old life in Drinkwater and the history he used to have. Jim, who expected to remain alone forever, is happy to start over, too, and theirs becomes a tender, sexy romance. Although Seth seems to have successfully put his past behind him to become the man he wants to be---the kind of man Jim can cherish---his childhood rushes back unexpectedly and with a vengeance. When Seth's sister, Cassie, arrives in the city with significant secrets and plans of her own, Drinkwater's intractable demands force Seth to revisit his hidden past. What Jim learns about Seth's concealments threatens to destroy their new life together. An engrossing contemporary drama of family ties both imposed and chosen, What Love Means to You People presents an indelible, illuminating look at the survival of the human spirit through willful reinvention and the power of love. Advance Praise for What Love Means to You People "A powerful debut novel--smart, sexy, and highly readable. NancyKay Shapiro's characters are subtly observed and movingly human."--Regina McBride, author of The Marriage Bed "Profound and moving. Shapiro dares to reimagine suffering and takes us on a journey to love and back. Seth McKenna will get under your skin. I am touched."--Abha Dawesar, author of Babyji "NancyKay Shapiro's debut is a powerful and knowing look at what can happen to love when the past bubbles up into the present. Elegantly written, this is a moving and surprising novel that doesn't let you go."--Katharine Weber, author of The Little Women, The Music Lesson, and Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear
Author : Daniel H. Pink
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 18,83 MB
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1101524383
The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new way to think about motivation from the author of When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others). In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world. Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does—and how that affects every aspect of life. He examines the three elements of true motivation—autonomy, mastery, and purpose-and offers smart and surprising techniques for putting these into action in a unique book that will change how we think and transform how we live.
Author : Dr. Robin DiAngelo
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,99 MB
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807047422
The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’ (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.
Author : Hank Lajoie
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 29,71 MB
Release : 2010-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1426940831
Eighteen-year-old Marli has always dreamed of becoming a star. She can't believe her good fortune when, Jeff, a talent scout encourages her to leave her small hometown of Harlan, Iowa, to become an actress in New York. But Marli discovers it's a big, bad world out there. After being told that she's flunked acting school, she's brutally raped by someone she trusts. Something inside Marli cracks; she uses the perpetrator's own knife and slashes her assailant's throat. A killer is born. She is offered a position she cannot refuse: as an assassin for a local crime boss. It will make her a wealthy woman. Along with Jeff, her mentor, the talent scout who brought her to the big city, she finds psychopathic pleasure in the art of disguise, passion, murder, and mayhem. Marli's secret relationship with Jeff poses risks that the crime boss is not willing to take. Marli can only hope she lives long enough to realize her dreams of success in acting, riches, and a happy marriage.
Author : Scott Johnsen
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 17,74 MB
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1644688417
Who Are You Taking to Hell with You? The title of this book came about because of the lies and deceit of Satan and his influence on our society, culture, and world, how we influence others with our attitudes, actions, and lack of common sense, and how the choices we make and the people who are influenced by our choices may in turn influence others by their choices, either leading to heaven or leading to hell.
Author : Shweta Grewal
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 23,22 MB
Release : 2018-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1643240374
It all started with the gunshot… a gunshot that changed lives. Not one… not two… but seven lives! Goonj was running from the ghosts of her past when she meets a mysterious man, Aarav. He gives her hope and makes her see the beauty of life. The only problem is that he reminds her of her past… a past she thought she had buried and left behind. Will Goonj be able to make peace with her life? Will Aarav be able to help her? Can she trust him or will he turn out to be a disaster? Unravel the mystery of these entangled lives that threaten to choke them out of breath!
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Civil Service
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 33,84 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Hostages
ISBN :
