In 5 Easy Steps Winner Of The Inaugural Asian Chic Writing Competition 2009

Author : Lum Kit- Wye
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789814677417

Get Book

In 5 Easy Steps (WINNER OF THE INAUGURAL ASIAN CHIC WRITING COMPETITION 2009) by Lum Kit- Wye Pdf

All Elaine Chan has ever wanted is a loving husband and a houseful of children. But when her almost-fiancé unceremoniously dumps her after a humiliating episode involving childhood enemies, condoms and puking, Elaine realizes that a change is in order. Armed with an article promising to show her how to re-invent herself in just 5 easy steps, Elaine finds herself on a one-way coach ride to a new life, a new future, a new her. But the complete makeover of Elaine is an arduous process, and is threatened with derailment by distractions like the mystery of the neighbour’s vanishing Indonesian maid, with which Elaine finds herself strangely obsessed. Her efforts to keep all the balls in the air as she plays glamour-puss, model girlfriend (to Evan, a hotshot young lawyer form work) and sleuth extraordinaire all rolled into one enticing depilated package, frequently lead her into situations that verge on the bizarre. Thank heavens through all the perils that seem to dog her evolution, and whose relaxed attitude to life reminds Elaine of how she used to be. As Elaine struggles to emerge as an elegant butterfly from the dowdy chrysalis that was her former self, she cannot help asking if these five steps are taking her to where she really wants to go.

Author : Amanda Gorman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780593465271

Get Book

The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman Pdf

The instant #1 New York Times bestseller and #1 USA Today bestseller Amanda Gorman’s electrifying and historic poem “The Hill We Climb,” read at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, is now available as a collectible gift edition. “Stunning.” —CNN “Dynamic.” —NPR “Deeply rousing and uplifting.” —Vogue On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Taking the stage after the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden, Gorman captivated the nation and brought hope to viewers around the globe with her call for unity and healing. Her poem “The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country” can now be cherished in this special gift edition, perfect for any reader looking for some inspiration. Including an enduring foreword by Oprah Winfrey, this remarkable keepsake celebrates the promise of America and affirms the power of poetry.

Author : Beth Ann Fennelly
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393609486

Get Book

Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs by Beth Ann Fennelly Pdf

“Consistently entertaining… always poised, eloquent, and full of moments of tenderness.” —Electric Literature The 52 micro-memoirs in genre-defying Heating & Cooling offer bright glimpses into a richly lived life, combining the compression of poetry with the truth-telling of nonfiction into one heartfelt, celebratory book. Alternatingly wistful and wry, ranging from childhood recollections to quirky cultural observations, these micro-memoirs build on one another to shape a life from unexpectedly illuminating moments.

Author : Fawn Germer
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781250271662

Get Book

Coming Back by Fawn Germer Pdf

One of Entrepreneur’s "8 Books You Should Read for a Successful 2021." "Bestselling author and four-time Pulitzer Prize-nominee Fawn Germer offers advice about how to present yourself in the best possible way and make sure you stay relevant and valuable as an employee." —Newsweek "Powerful tactics (and some much-needed tough love) calls to action, helping professionals who feel they’re in a stalemate in their careers learn, re-tool, connect, grow, and get ready to work again." —Forbes A street smart, inspiring, practical, and utterly honest book for renewing or resuming your career. Millions of mid- to late-career professionals are wondering why our careers are dying. We've been fired, downsized, job-eliminated, or we've left work voluntarily to raise children, care for loved ones, or go to school It takes twice as long to get hired, and usually for far less money than we were making. Is it age discrimination? Maybe. But it’s not that simple. So many of us have lagged on skills and technology, shrugged off social media, or ignored the rate of change and let younger people become the face of our profession’s future. Our “track record” really doesn’t matter. We want to come back, but we aren’t ready. Coming Back offers clear advice, including: • STOP PLAYING THE VICTIM, even if you are one. • BRAND YOURSELF AS A CHANGE DRIVER who studies trends and studies independently so you are diving into change, not reacting to it. • CALL IN THE CHITS. It is time to go guerrilla and bluntly ask for help from people who can get you what you want and need. • TELL INTERVIEWERS about what you will do—don’t rely on what you have done. • STOP GROUSING about “those millennials” and start working with them. • BOUNCE BACK from a layoff or firing. Coming Back shows how you can save a career if still employed or get one back if cast out. Fawn Germer, one of the nation’s most popular leadership experts and global motivational speakers, has personally interviewed more than three hundred CEOs, senior executives, professors, lawyers, organizational experts, industry leaders, and professionals. The result is a tactical, tough-love call to action: to learn, re-tool, connect, grow, and get ready to work again.

Author : Steven Levitsky,Daniel Ziblatt
Publisher : Crown
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781524762940

Get Book

How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky,Daniel Ziblatt Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly timely.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITH BOOK PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Time • Foreign Affairs • WBUR • Paste Donald Trump’s presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we’d be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of democracies in Europe and Latin America, and they believe the answer is yes. Democracy no longer ends with a bang—in a revolution or military coup—but with a whimper: the slow, steady weakening of critical institutions, such as the judiciary and the press, and the gradual erosion of long-standing political norms. The good news is that there are several exit ramps on the road to authoritarianism. The bad news is that, by electing Trump, we have already passed the first one. Drawing on decades of research and a wide range of historical and global examples, from 1930s Europe to contemporary Hungary, Turkey, and Venezuela, to the American South during Jim Crow, Levitsky and Ziblatt show how democracies die—and how ours can be saved. Praise for How Democracies Die “What we desperately need is a sober, dispassionate look at the current state of affairs. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, two of the most respected scholars in the field of democracy studies, offer just that.”—The Washington Post “Where Levitsky and Ziblatt make their mark is in weaving together political science and historical analysis of both domestic and international democratic crises; in doing so, they expand the conversation beyond Trump and before him, to other countries and to the deep structure of American democracy and politics.”—Ezra Klein, Vox “If you only read one book for the rest of the year, read How Democracies Die. . . .This is not a book for just Democrats or Republicans. It is a book for all Americans. It is nonpartisan. It is fact based. It is deeply rooted in history. . . . The best commentary on our politics, no contest.”—Michael Morrell, former Acting Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (via Twitter) “A smart and deeply informed book about the ways in which democracy is being undermined in dozens of countries around the world, and in ways that are perfectly legal.”—Fareed Zakaria, CNN

Author : G. Thomas Couser
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780472050697

Get Book

Signifying Bodies by G. Thomas Couser Pdf

Sheds new light on the memoir boom by asking: Is the genre basically about disability?

Author : Jose L. Galvan,Melisa C. Galvan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351858922

Get Book

Writing Literature Reviews by Jose L. Galvan,Melisa C. Galvan Pdf

Guideline 12: If the Results of Previous Studies Are Inconsistent or Widely Varying, Cite Them Separately

Author : Ireton, Cherilyn,Posetti, Julie
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : Fake news
ISBN : 9789231002816

Get Book

Journalism, fake news & disinformation by Ireton, Cherilyn,Posetti, Julie Pdf

Author : Union Of International Associations,Union of International Associations
Publisher : Yearbook of International Orga
Page : 1452 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 900427197X

Get Book

Yearbook of International Organizations 2014-2015, Volumes 1a & 1b (Set) by Union Of International Associations,Union of International Associations Pdf

Volume 1 (A and B) covers international organizations throughout the world, comprising their aims, activities and events.

Author : Jimmy Lin,Chris Dyer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031021367

Get Book

Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce by Jimmy Lin,Chris Dyer Pdf

Our world is being revolutionized by data-driven methods: access to large amounts of data has generated new insights and opened exciting new opportunities in commerce, science, and computing applications. Processing the enormous quantities of data necessary for these advances requires large clusters, making distributed computing paradigms more crucial than ever. MapReduce is a programming model for expressing distributed computations on massive datasets and an execution framework for large-scale data processing on clusters of commodity servers. The programming model provides an easy-to-understand abstraction for designing scalable algorithms, while the execution framework transparently handles many system-level details, ranging from scheduling to synchronization to fault tolerance. This book focuses on MapReduce algorithm design, with an emphasis on text processing algorithms common in natural language processing, information retrieval, and machine learning. We introduce the notion of MapReduce design patterns, which represent general reusable solutions to commonly occurring problems across a variety of problem domains. This book not only intends to help the reader "think in MapReduce", but also discusses limitations of the programming model as well. Table of Contents: Introduction / MapReduce Basics / MapReduce Algorithm Design / Inverted Indexing for Text Retrieval / Graph Algorithms / EM Algorithms for Text Processing / Closing Remarks

Author : Wendy Brown
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781935408536

Get Book

Undoing the Demos by Wendy Brown Pdf

This is a book for the age of resistance, for the occupiers of the squares, for the generation of Occupy Wall Street. The premier radical political philosopher of our time offers a devastating critique of the way neoliberalism has hollowed out democracy.

Author : Jeff Speck
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781429945967

Get Book

Walkable City by Jeff Speck Pdf

Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability. The very idea of a modern metropolis evokes visions of bustling sidewalks, vital mass transit, and a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly urban core. But in the typical American city, the car is still king, and downtown is a place that's easy to drive to but often not worth arriving at. Making walkability happen is relatively easy and cheap; seeing exactly what needs to be done is the trick. In this essential new book, Speck reveals the invisible workings of the city, how simple decisions have cascading effects, and how we can all make the right choices for our communities. Bursting with sharp observations and real-world examples, giving key insight into what urban planners actually do and how places can and do change, Walkable City lays out a practical, necessary, and eminently achievable vision of how to make our normal American cities great again.

Author : Marshall McLuhan
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 153743005X

Get Book

Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan Pdf

When first published, Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media made history with its radical view of the effects of electronic communications upon man and life in the twentieth century.

Author : Obama Barack
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1318914043

Get Book

Inaugural Presidential Address by Obama Barack Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : David S. Bright,Anastasia H. Cortes,Eva Hartmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 199810916X

Get Book

Principles of Management by David S. Bright,Anastasia H. Cortes,Eva Hartmann Pdf

Black & white print. Principles of Management is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the introductory course on management. This is a traditional approach to management using the leading, planning, organizing, and controlling approach. Management is a broad business discipline, and the Principles of Management course covers many management areas such as human resource management and strategic management, as well as behavioral areas such as motivation. No one individual can be an expert in all areas of management, so an additional benefit of this text is that specialists in a variety of areas have authored individual chapters.