Letters To Colleagues And Friends

Author : Edvard Grieg
Publisher : Peer Gynt Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028478092

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Letters to Colleagues and Friends by Edvard Grieg Pdf

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) is known and loved throughout the world as one of the most important composers of the late nineteenth century. His music seems to embody the spectacular beauty of the mountains and fjords of his beloved Norway as well as the undercurrent of melancholy in the soul of its people. Scholars have long been aware that Grieg was a prolific and skillful letter-writer, but only recently have his letters been gathered from libraries and archives all over the world and made available in published form. Over 500 of the most important of these letters are presented in English in the present volume. Make no mistake about it: The author of this book is Edvard Grieg himself. This book constitutes a kind of autobiography. Not least, it provides a fascinating insight into what he was thinking, how he was feeling when he wrote this or that piece of music. The recipients of Grieg's letters included some of the most renowned people of his day -- Johannes Brahms, Henrik Ibsen, Clara Schumann, Peter Tchaikovsky -- as well as many unheralded colleagues and friends whose lives touched his in one way or another. To different correspondents, at different times, in different moods, he revealed various sides of his personality.

Author : Steven S. Rogers
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119794776

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A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues by Steven S. Rogers Pdf

Learn how to address racial wealth disparity in the United States today From the life, professional experiences, and research of former Harvard Business School professor Steven Rogers, comes his boldly stated, A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues. This informative epistle investigates the causes of racial wealth disparity in the United States and provides solutions for addressing it. Through extensive data and historical research, anecdotes, teaching, and case studies, it presents practical ways White people can work with and help the Black community. It teaches readers that eliminating the $153,000 wealth gap between Black and White people is the solution to over 75% of our problems and offers solutions to help improve Black-White racial relations in the United States. In straightforward language, filled with facts, stories, advice, and sometimes even humor, A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues encourages every White person to share his/her wealth with the Black community—plain and simple. This book recommends that you spend a portion of your annual household budget with Black-owned companies. If more money is spent at Black-owned businesses, those companies can grow and create more jobs for Black people. Rogers also proposes White people make large savings deposits into Black-owned banks. These are the financial institutions that are the backbone of the Black community that provide loans to the Black community for businesses, education, automobiles, and home mortgages. And finally, he resolutely encourages White people to support government reparations to Black Americans who are descendants of Black men and women, who were enslaved from 1619 to 1865. Those who read the book will: Understand the root causes of racial disparities in America Discover how you can personally contribute to reducing the inequality between Black and White people in the United States today Get concrete recommendations on how to redirect your spending to Black-owned institutions to help decrease the racial wealth gap This groundbreaking book provides financial recommendations that you can put into practice today, using his helpful instructions in most of the chapters, to address the systemic inequality between White and Black Americans. Read A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues and be part of the path forward.

Author : Steven S. Rogers
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119794783

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A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues by Steven S. Rogers Pdf

Learn how to address racial wealth disparity in the United States today From the life, professional experiences, and research of former Harvard Business School professor Steven Rogers, comes his boldly stated, A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues. This informative epistle investigates the causes of racial wealth disparity in the United States and provides solutions for addressing it. Through extensive data and historical research, anecdotes, teaching, and case studies, it presents practical ways White people can work with and help the Black community. It teaches readers that eliminating the $153,000 wealth gap between Black and White people is the solution to over 75% of our problems and offers solutions to help improve Black-White racial relations in the United States. In straightforward language, filled with facts, stories, advice, and sometimes even humor, A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues encourages every White person to share his/her wealth with the Black community—plain and simple. This book recommends that you spend a portion of your annual household budget with Black-owned companies. If more money is spent at Black-owned businesses, those companies can grow and create more jobs for Black people. Rogers also proposes White people make large savings deposits into Black-owned banks. These are the financial institutions that are the backbone of the Black community that provide loans to the Black community for businesses, education, automobiles, and home mortgages. And finally, he resolutely encourages White people to support government reparations to Black Americans who are descendants of Black men and women, who were enslaved from 1619 to 1865. Those who read the book will: Understand the root causes of racial disparities in America Discover how you can personally contribute to reducing the inequality between Black and White people in the United States today Get concrete recommendations on how to redirect your spending to Black-owned institutions to help decrease the racial wealth gap This groundbreaking book provides financial recommendations that you can put into practice today, using his helpful instructions in most of the chapters, to address the systemic inequality between White and Black Americans. Read A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues and be part of the path forward.

Author : Alison Green
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780399181818

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Ask a Manager by Alison Green Pdf

From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520906075

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Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2 by Mark Twain Pdf

Here is young Sam Clemens—in the world, getting famous, making love—in 155 magnificently edited letters that trace his remarkable self-transformation from a footloose, irreverent West Coast journalist to a popular lecturer and author of The Jumping Frog, soon to be a national and international celebrity. And on the move he was—from San Francisco to New York, to St. Louis, and then to Paris, Naples, Rome, Athens, Constantinople, Yalta, and the Holy Land; back to New York and on to Washington; back to San Francisco and Virginia City; and on to lecturing in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New York. Resplendent with wit, love of life, ambition, and literary craft, this new volume in the wonderful Bancroft Library edition of Mark Twain's Letters will delight and inform both scholars and general readers. This volume has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mark Twain Foundation, Jane Newhall, and The Friends of The Bancroft Library.

Author : Dax-Devlon Ross
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781250276841

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Letters to My White Male Friends by Dax-Devlon Ross Pdf

In Letters to My White Male Friends, Dax-Devlon Ross speaks directly to the millions of middle-aged white men who are suddenly awakening to race and racism. White men are finally realizing that simply not being racist isn’t enough to end racism. These men want deeper insight not only into how racism has harmed Black people, but, for the first time, into how it has harmed them. They are beginning to see that racism warps us all. Letters to My White Male Friends promises to help men who have said they are committed to change and to develop the capacity to see, feel and sustain that commitment so they can help secure racial justice for us all. Ross helps readers understand what it meant to be America’s first generation raised after the civil rights era. He explains how we were all educated with colorblind narratives and symbols that typically, albeit implicitly, privileged whiteness and denigrated Blackness. He provides the context and color of his own experiences in white schools so that white men can revisit moments in their lives where racism was in the room even when they didn’t see it enter. Ross shows how learning to see the harm that racism did to him, and forgiving himself, gave him the empathy to see the harm it does to white people as well. Ultimately, Ross offers white men direction so that they can take just action in their workplace, community, family, and, most importantly, in themselves, especially in the future when race is no longer in the spotlight.

Author : Joseph Howe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Nova Scotia
ISBN : OXFORD:N10548892

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The Speeches and Public Letters of the Hon. Joseph Howe by Joseph Howe Pdf

Author : Catherine O'Neill Grace,Margaret M. Bruchac
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1417628774

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1621 by Catherine O'Neill Grace,Margaret M. Bruchac Pdf

Discover the real Thanksgiving through photographs from a recreation of the true Thanksgiving by Plimoth Plantation

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
ISBN : UIUC:30112108168912

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Department of State News Letter by United States. Department of State Pdf

Author : Xavier Dekeyser
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9042907630

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Thinking English Grammar by Xavier Dekeyser Pdf

Thinking English Grammar. To Honour Xavier Dekeyser, Professor Emeritus contains papers by 34 colleagues of professor Dekeyser on subjects that have interested him throughout his career. His research has mainly been devoted to the history of English, and it is only natural that the first and longest section should consist of 11 papers on variation in English, both diachronic and synchronic. The second, barely shorter with its 9 papers, is devoted to the description of various aspects of modern English; some of these papers shade off into theoretical linguistics. Professor Dekeyser having obtained his Ph.D. on grammaticography, there is a third section on "Grammar from the Past", with 5 papers. The final section, 9 papers on "Language Teaching and Contrast", honours the eminent teacher of literally thousands of budding anglicists.

Author : Mark Dvoretsky
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-24
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781941270103

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For Friends & Colleagues by Mark Dvoretsky Pdf

The Mark of a Master Instructor Mark Dvoretsky has long been considered one of the premier chess coaches and trainers in the world. He is renowned for taking talented masters and forging them into world-class grandmasters and champions. His literary achievements are also quite distinguished. For example, Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual, soon to be released in a fourth edition, established itself as the sine qua non of endgame theory from the moment it appeared over a decade ago. This accomplished chess instructor and author now shares his story in a ground-breaking two-volume set. You are invited to share his journey from his childhood and maturing into a strong master, to his participation in the powerful Soviet championships and then, his transition to full-time chess coach. Along the way, Dvoretsky pulls no punches with his commentary and insights about the all-encompassing Soviet chess machine, top-flight grandmasters, and his trials and tribulations as he helped develop “average” masters into world-class players.

Author : Michael Joseph Burdo
Publisher : Trafford
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1412060249

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Humorous Letters to Family, Friends and Colleagues by Michael Joseph Burdo Pdf

Too often in life, we are confronted with hardships and challenges that can either bring us down or muster up our inner strength to confront the difficulties and challenges head on. An extremely valuable resource in dealing with the ups and downs of life is humor. We often hear the saying that life is too short and that we must live it to the fullest as if each day could be our last one. I find nothing more rewarding and beneficial for bringing folks together than the use of humor in a non hurtful way. Our world is indeed filled with an over-abundance of stressors that at times may overwhelm us. Humor can most certainly be the most valuable tool and ally in combating times of possible woe and upheaval. This book is filled with delightful humor encompassing large doses of wit and puns meant to bring you brief moments of pleasure in the realm of 'letting go'. In no way is the materials in the text meant to be hurtful towards andy individual regardless of ethnicity, creed, health status, sexual orientation, career choice, economic status, etc. The text is dedicated towards lightening the burdens that we confront on a day to day basis. As well, it makes satire of specific life events and occurrences that we often encounter both personally and amongst our friends, colleagues, and other family members.

Author : Gian Marco Farese
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498579285

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The Cultural Semantics of Address Practices by Gian Marco Farese Pdf

This book presents a contrastive analysis of various forms of address used in English and Italian from a cultural semantics perspective. The analysis investigates the different cultural values underlying address practices in English and Italian and emphasizes the risks of miscommunication caused by differences in intercultural interactions.

Author : Constance M. Furey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521849876

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Erasmus, Contarini, and the Religious Republic of Letters by Constance M. Furey Pdf

This 2005 book examines how the religious search for meaning shaped contemporary assumptions about friendship, gender, reading and writing.

Author : David Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780190637941

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Cicely Saunders by David Clark Pdf

Born at the end of World War One into a prosperous London family, Cicely Saunders struggled at school before gaining entry to Oxford University to read Politics, Philosophy and Economics. As World War Two gained momentum, she quit academic study to train as a nurse, thereby igniting her lifelong interest in caring for others. Following a back injury, she became a medical social worker, and then in her late 30s, qualified as a physician. By now her focus was on a hugely neglected area of modern health services: the care of the dying. When she opened the world's first modern hospice in 1967 a quiet revolution got underway. Education, research, and clinical practice were combined in a model of 'total care' for terminally ill patients and their families that quickly had a massive impact. In Cicely Saunders: A Life and Legacy, David Clark draws on interviews, correspondence, and the publications of Cicely Saunders to tell the remarkable story of how she pursued her goals through the complexity of her personal life, the skepticism of others, and the pervasive influence of her religious faith. When she died in 2005, her legacy was firmly established in the growing field of hospice and palliative care, which had now gained global recognition.