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Author : Dr. Katrina Wood
Publisher : Author's Ink Publications
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9788194128960
Self Help Book By Dr. Katrina Wood
Author : Madeleine Thien
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345810441
Winner of the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and longlisted for the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, this extraordinary novel tells the story of three musicians in China before, during and after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Madeleine Thien's new novel is breathtaking in scope and ambition even as it is hauntingly intimate. With the ease and skill of a master storyteller, Thien takes us inside an extended family in China, showing us the lives of two successive generations--those who lived through Mao's Cultural Revolution in the mid-twentieth century; and the children of the survivors, who became the students protesting in Tiananmen Square in 1989, in one of the most important political moments of the past century. With exquisite writing sharpened by a surprising vein of wit and sly humour, Thien has crafted unforgettable characters who are by turns flinty and headstrong, dreamy and tender, foolish and wise. At the centre of this epic tale, as capacious and mysterious as life itself, are enigmatic Sparrow, a genius composer who wishes desperately to create music yet can find truth only in silence; his mother and aunt, Big Mother Knife and Swirl, survivors with captivating singing voices and an unbreakable bond; Sparrow's ethereal cousin Zhuli, daughter of Swirl and storyteller Wen the Dreamer, who as a child witnesses the denunciation of her parents and as a young woman becomes the target of denunciations herself; and headstrong, talented Kai, best friend of Sparrow and Zhuli, and a determinedly successful musician who is a virtuoso at masking his true self until the day he can hide no longer. Here, too, is Kai's daughter, the ever-questioning mathematician Marie, who pieces together the tale of her fractured family in present-day Vancouver, seeking a fragile meaning in the layers of their collective story. With maturity and sophistication, humour and beauty, a huge heart and impressive understanding, Thien has crafted a novel that is at once beautifully intimate and grandly political, rooted in the details of daily life inside China, yet transcendent in its universality.
Author : Michael Cangemi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1793430136
Do Not Resuscitate. D N R. Is this what it'll take, sticking a front yard lawn sign into the mud to get the entire world to understand I want a day off, from everything? The daily broadcasts, past, present, Orwellian future that recharges itself faster than a twenty four hour news cycle. Everything.Let's face it, whatever he says that she says that I said keeps everybody in business. Is it me or am I hearing "close enough for now" too often? Imagine the ensuing chaos, the incredibly long lines at mental health clinics across the nation if everybody settled for "close enough" and "good enough" instead of reaching for the stars. Would you want to sleep in an apartment building whose architectural framework was built on the guidelines of "good enough, for now"?I understand how trying to cross a bridge before reaching it might cause one trouble but waiting until the last possible moment to pay the tender isn't my way of ensuring a worry-free float down the river. Is it yours?Making your way through life at the speed of a sloth might work for some but, for anyone who has a liquid ounce of creative juice on the brain, skipping between the raindrops, expecting to remain dry until reaching your front doorstep, is a recipe for disaster.This book is an observational essay written with the foreknowledge that whatever I say will be repeated differently by him and, in another way, by her. Today's rules of candor, the self evident right to be yourself, have become a stage prop rigged to open up a path to dialog. Everybody wants to join the party, attendance on a resume will look good, and simply because the invitation was lost in the mail doesn't mean you're not welcome.We live in a freelance, divided state of interruption and misinterpretation. That's Not What I Said is my essay of opinions, my observations, my humorous attempt at getting you to see that as much as you want to believe we're not alike, we are. After reading this book, hearing you reach similar conclusion, of course, in your own royalty-free words in place of mine, let's hope we don't sue one another because of copy write infringement.And then what?Poof. I mean, what do you expect? You're standing in your front yard again. You know the neighbors are watching from their living room window, they can see you talking to yourself as clearly as the raindrops dripping from your nose. You don't have to hear what they're saying to one another because you've heard it before."There he goes again, that damn fool, sticking his DNR sign into the mud."He said she said I said. Still, you know they've got one thing correct. You are talking to yourself. And you already know that at the next patio barbecue they'll comment on how they saw your disheveled framework of a human being standing in the rain, muddied and mumbling nonsense to yourself exactly the way you did the last time and the time before that. Of all the neighborhoods across America you had to move into a cluster of amateur lip readers.You'll let them speak their minds, perhaps suggest that they too should write an observational essay and submit it to the local newspaper's opinion page editor. And after? When they're done editing the rain-washed words that had pooled at your feet, you give your response. "That's Not What I Said".
Author : Dr. Frank Luntz
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781401385743
The nation's premier communications expert shares his wisdom on how the words we choose can change the course of business, of politics, and of life in this country In Words That Work, Luntz offers a behind-the-scenes look at how the tactical use of words and phrases affects what we buy, who we vote for, and even what we believe in. With chapters like "The Ten Rules of Successful Communication" and "The 21 Words and Phrases for the 21st Century," he examines how choosing the right words is essential. Nobody is in a better position to explain than Frank Luntz: He has used his knowledge of words to help more than two dozen Fortune 500 companies grow. Hell tell us why Rupert Murdoch's six-billion-dollar decision to buy DirectTV was smart because satellite was more cutting edge than "digital cable," and why pharmaceutical companies transitioned their message from "treatment" to "prevention" and "wellness." If you ever wanted to learn how to talk your way out of a traffic ticket or talk your way into a raise, this book's for you.
Author : Joan Detz
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000-10-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781466804210
Why do some speakers succeed while many bore their audiences and lose their listeners? Speaking coach Joan Detz has worked with top clients for more than 15 years and has the answers. In this useful and lively book she presents strategies and tips for speeches, sales presentations, brief remarks, job interviews, Q&A sessions, panels, and more -- every situation that requires something to say. Topics include: organizing your message * finding terrific research * using storytelling techniques * preparing the room * handling technical glitches * working with other speakers * measuring your effectiveness * making the most of your voice * mastering humor * using body language * conquering nervousness * building audience rapport * tapping the power of persuasion. Filled with checklists, tip sheets, self-evaluations, and practical advice on every page, this thorough and invaluable guide takes the mystery out of our most dreaded experience. This book will help you say it better-whether you're talking to one or one thousand.
Author : Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1663608199
Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781913724269
George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
Author : John McCloskey
Publisher : Adamford.com
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781452817897
"He is not a murderer who brings about abortion before the soul is in the body" said Roman Catholic canon law for over eight hundred years, until 1917 when Pope Benedict XV approved a revised code of canon law. - From the book What began as an investigation into why one pope said an abortion was not murder led to the long history of popes who said so, and to an amazing consequence of that history which persists even today. From review in Conscience, the Newsjournal of Catholic Opinion, Vol. XXXII - No. 1 2011 "Author John McCloskey chronicles his journey to find truth behind the story of Pope Innocent III, who in the early 13th century declared early abortion was not murder. McCloskey's research regarding delayed versus immediate ensoulment, dogmatic language and the search for definitive answers about papal decrees regarding abortion encourages readers to read further."
Author : Nick Wilson
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781803138817
“Ruby (a trainee detective) and her boyfriend Jools (a criminal solicitor) find themselves on opposite sides of a murder confession when Freya Maskell walks into a police station and says that she’s killed someone.
Author : Jeff Riggenbach
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Textbook bias
ISBN : 9781610163040
"Americans have been warring with each other for more than a century over the contents of the American history textbooks used in the nation's high schools and colleges"--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Louis Ferguson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781669878650
My book is about a man in his seventies who thought he had found lasting love, but it was just his thought, not a reality, and how he dealt with the pain of being rejected; things that shape our lives. My life is now shaped in my seventies by the difficult changes I wrote about in my book and have made me a better man.
Author : Maria Stan
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781434941268
Author : Carl Alasko Ph. D.,Carl Alasko
Publisher : TarcherPerigee
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781585429325
"Carl Alasko has found that with the right guidance, anyone can learn effective communication skills. In Say This, Not That, Alasko presents readers with simple instructions for what to say . . . and what not to say"--
Author : Ivana Lowell
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408810040
Beautiful, intelligent and wealthy, Ivana Lowell seemed to have it all. Part of the Guinness dynasty, her family were glamorous and well-connected. Her charismatic but spoilt grandmother Maureen had made an excellent marriage with the Lord of Dufferin and Avon and was a leader of the fashionable set in her youth. Her mother, the writer Caroline Blackwood, socialised with the most glitteringly bohemian and high-profile figures of New York and London. Caroline had intense love affairs and was married to the painter Lucian Freud and the talented composer Israel Citkowitz before finally settling down with the poet Robert Lowell.However, being born into the Guinness inheritance was not the blessing that it appeared to be. Ivana's life of glamour and high-living has been marked by tragedy and loss. Like her brilliant but troubled mother, she has been plagued by an addiction to alcohol which took root when she was still a self-conscious schoolgirl. Having survived a childhood accident which left her physically scarred and the instability of a frenetic home life, she is also faced with the discovery of a secret which threatens to undermine her entire past.This frank and witty memoir is both vibrant and sad. It is laced with anecdotes and familiar names from the 1940s to the present, but it is ultimately an account of the relationship between mother and daughter, the story of two women whose deep affection for each other withstands everything that life has to throw at them.
Author : Ali Drucker
Publisher : The Experiment, LLC
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781615197972
This is shame-free, affirmative sex education for college-age women, and anyone just discovering what they want “Do As I Say, Not Who I Did is not subtle, delicate, or laced in metaphor. . . . It’s compelling, funny, and unflinchingly educational while delivering a stream of unconditional compassion for the reader.”—Daily Campus It’s hard to overstate how much we put pressure on early sexual encounters—and how little real advice is out there. How do I deal when I keep running into my one-night stand? How can I tell if I’m too drunk to have sex? How do I say stop when I’m not really into it? Why do I keep getting all these UTIs? And most of all: Why is so much of sex ed focused on what could go wrong instead of what actually feels good? In this unflinchingly honest guide to hookups and relationships in the twenty-first century, Ali Drucker answers these questions and more—with “been there, done that” confessional advice, plus input from experts on sexuality and from students in college today. If you missed out on shame-free, affirmative sex education . . . if you’re nervous about having sex . . . if you’re just discovering what you want (and how to ask for it)—this book is for you.
