Window Seat

Author : Taylor Tippett
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781400225385

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Words from the Window Seat by Taylor Tippett Pdf

Flight attendant Taylor Tippett had just finished beverage service and was sitting in the back of a Boeing 737 when she had a revelation: How can I show kindness to these passengers if I can't show it to myself? She grabbed a tiny notepad and a Sharpie and wrote a simple message that would change her life: "Be kind to yourself." Before she had time to think about it, Taylor taped the note to a window, posted a picture, and then left the slip of paper in a seat-back pocket for someone on the next flight to find. What started as a personal project to encourage herself and others soon became a viral sensation. In Words from the Window Seat, Taylor shares stories of her travels, daily life, and interactions with people of all kinds, anchoring each chapter around a note she's left for a stranger to find. As she takes you from Chicago to Paris to Barcelona on planes, trains, and even a skateboard, you'll: Learn how to embody love through little acts of kindness Discover the small moments of magic in the everyday Find ways to embrace your authentic self With charm, inspiration, and plenty of whimsy, Taylor reminds us that even in a weary world, it's possible to celebrate the beauty in each person's unique story--and make an impact that goes deeper than you'll ever know. Praise for Words from the Window Seat: "These pages will empower you to explore the many opportunities we have each day to encounter light and share love with others while traveling. Whether traveling by air or traveling through life. This book is an encouragement to be present in the everyday, no matter what comes your way." --Morgan Harper Nichols, bestselling author of All Along You Were Blooming

Author : Julieanne Kost
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0596100833

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Window Seat by Julieanne Kost Pdf

Modifications). The book is in a 10x10" format. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Aminatta Forna
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780802158598

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The Window Seat by Aminatta Forna Pdf

“Gutsy, funny, risky and wise, full of dazzling late-night insight, in-the-middle-of-everything epiphanies, moments of sheer honesty blooming into gut truths.” —Marlon James, Booker Prize–winning author Aminatta Forna is one of our most important literary voices, and her novels have won the Windham Campbell Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book. In this elegantly rendered and wide-ranging collection of new and previously published essays, Forna writes intimately about displacement, trauma and memory, love, and how we coexist and encroach on the non-human world. Movement is a constant here. In the title piece, “The Window Seat,” she reveals the unexpected enchantments of commercial air travel. In “Obama and the Renaissance Generation,” she documents how, despite the narrative of Obama’s exceptionalism, his father, like her own, was one of a generation of gifted young Africans who came to the United Kingdom and the United States for education and were expected to build their home countries anew after colonialism. In “The Last Vet,” time spent shadowing Dr. Jalloh, the only veterinarian in Sierra Leone, as he works with the street dogs of Freetown, becomes a meditation on what a society’s treatment of animals tells us about its principles. In “Crossroads,” she examines race in America from an African perspective, and in “Power Walking” she describes what it means to walk in the world in a Black woman’s body and in “The Watch” she explores the raptures of sleep and sleeplessness the world over. Deeply meditative and written with a wry humor, The Window Seat confirms that Forna is “a compelling essayist . . . her voice direct, lucid, and fearless” (Claire Messud, Harper’s Magazine).

Author : Vivek Shraya
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780735238664

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People Change by Vivek Shraya Pdf

“A deeply generous and honest gift to the world.” —Elliot Page The author of I’m Afraid of Men lets readers in on the secrets to a life of reinvention. Vivek Shraya knows this to be true: people change. We change our haircuts and our outfits and our minds. We change names, titles, labels. We attempt to blend in or to stand out. We outgrow relationships, we abandon dreams for new ones, we start fresh. We seize control of our stories. We make resolutions. In fact, nobody knows this better than Vivek, who’s made a career of embracing many roles: artist, performer, musician, writer, model, teacher. In People Change, she reflects on the origins of this impulse, tracing it to childhood influences from Hinduism to Madonna. What emerges is a meditation on change itself: why we fear it, why we’re drawn to it, what motivates us to change, and what traps us in place. At a time when we’re especially contemplating who we want to be, this slim and stylish handbook is an essential companion—a guide to celebrating our many selves and the inspiration to discover who we’ll become next.

Author : Gregory Dicum
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0811851516

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Window Seat: Europe by Gregory Dicum Pdf

Flying on the wing of the North American edition's success, this book decodesthe sights to be seen on any flight across Europe. 67 color aerial photos. 18line drawings. Fold-out map.

Author : Tony Scellato
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781664208575

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I Prefer the Window Seat by Tony Scellato Pdf

A battle can be won or lost with one decision. Victory or defeat is often a matter of inches. To win, you have to be in the battle, not watching from the hilltop. Just ask David as he watched Goliath mock and threaten God’s army. The enemy has been mocking and threatening God’s army, the church, ever since. The question is, is God’s army, specifically in America, deciding to leave the battle for a more comfortable, “safer” faith? I Prefer the Window Seat seeks to give answers to that question and to challenge the American church to stop watching from the hilltop and to get down into the valley of the battle. “Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.” – Matthew 9:38.

Author : Aditya Shekhar
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781387197316

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Window Seat Philosopher by Aditya Shekhar Pdf

Inspired and written on various flights traversing the world, Shekhar's first book takes readers on a journey through an aviation-filled world comprised of themes familiar not just to hardcore aviation enthusiasts, but also to a broader audience. Comprised entirely of short personal accounts written in a poetic memoir format, Shekhar explores themes relating to travel, exploration, family, and humanity, all the while using the central metaphor of aviation to guide his storytelling.

Author : Gerry Horigan
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-29
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781456824211

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Is This a Window Seat? by Gerry Horigan Pdf

Airports were never built to make travel easier for the public. A psychologist named Brian Brain who was writing a paper on behavioural understanding phoned his mate Bob the Builder and asked him if he had any spare bricks and mortar. When Bob said yes Brian said lets build a place where people can ride on aeroplanes, I can watch how they behave, write a book about it, you can make a few bob from the car parks and well both make a fortune from the concessions. Not one word is true but if one were just someone from an airport writing a book on the way an airport works and letting off a bit of steam from an insiders point of view it seems a good idea.

Author : Glen Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1633310396

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Window Seat on the World by Glen Johnson Pdf

Unless they've lost a passport abroad, most Americans have little appreciation for the reach and scope of the US Department of State or the perils faced by its employees. Reporter Glen Johnson had been covering politics for the Boston Globe when he received a job offer that would embed him in this world of protocols, planes, and global peacekeeping. His new boss would be Secretary of State John Kerry, set to become the most prominent diplomat on the world stage. Johnson sensed it was a meeting of man and moment. For four years, he accompanied Kerry as he became the most-traveled Secretary of State in history. The former journalist kept notes while Kerry worked out a power-sharing agreement in Afghanistan, negotiated with the Israelis, convinced Iran to get rid of its nuclear weapons program, developed a counter-ISIS coalition, and brokered climate change agreements, including the 2015 Paris Agreement. Kerry also confronted two lingering challenges: how to cooperate with an assertive China and a Russia that sidestepped its own wrongdoing but felt aggrieved and justified to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. In his goal to create the best and most complete photo archive of any Secretary of State, Johnson lobbied the State Department for a decent camera and shot more than 100,000 photographs everywhere Kerry went--from the office of Pope Francis to center ice for a puck drop at Madison Square Garden, from the Kremlin and No. 10 Downing Street to a helicopter flying over Antarctica. Window Seat on the World is an all-access look at life inside the nation's first cabinet agency: the complexity of State Department protocols, the grueling schedules, the delicacy of engagement with world leaders and foreign cultures, and the dedication of a longtime public servant and his team to the practice of diplomacy.

Author : Marie Proeller Hueston,The Editors of Country Living
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781588165671

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Country Living Cottage Style by Marie Proeller Hueston,The Editors of Country Living Pdf

Any home anywhere can achieve that cozy cottage feel. Just look at these color photos, brimming with surprising and inspiring ideas, and you'll see the possibilities. This magnificent guide to cottage style salutes both traditional takes and fresh twists on this enduring look, and highlights those elements that truly make a room cottage style. The sheer number of variations on this laid-back approach is simply amazing, ranging from a California bungalow furnished in flea market finds to a New York apartment that seems straight out of the English countryside. Flip through the pages of images. Then use them as blueprints to copy precisely or as an idea manual of clever ways to apply unique colors, work with wallpaper patterns, or display collections. “Lavishly illustrated with full-color photographs throughout.”--Publishers Weekly.

Author : Lauren Elkin
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781635901535

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No. 91/92 by Lauren Elkin Pdf

A love letter to Paris and a meditation on how it has changed in two decades, evolving from the twentieth century into the twenty-first, from analog to digital. Your telephone is precious. It may be envied. We recommend vigilance when using it in public. --Paris bus public notice In fall 2014 Lauren Elkin began keeping a diary of her bus commutes in the Notes app on her iPhone 5c, writing down the interesting things and people she saw in a Perecquian homage to Bus Lines 91 and 92, which she took from her apartment in the 5th Arrondissement to her teaching job in the 7th. Reading the notice, she decided to be vigilant when using her phone: she would carry out a public transport vigil, using it to take in the world around her and notice all the things she would miss if she continued using it the way she had been, the way everyone does--to surf the web, check social media, maintain her daily sense of self through digital interaction. Her goal became to observe the world through the screen of her phone, rather than using her phone to distract from the world. During the course of that academic year, the Charlie Hebdo attacks occurred and Elkin had an ectopic pregnancy, requiring emergency surgery. At that point, her diary of dailiness became a study of the counterpoint between the everyday and the Event, mediated through early twenty-first century technology, and observed from the height of a bus seat. No. 91/92 is a love letter to Paris, and a meditation on how it has changed in the two decades the author has lived there, evolving from the twentieth century into the twenty-first, from analog to digital.

Author : Vishala Katta
Publisher : One Point Six Technology Pvt Ltd
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789352016198

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A Window Seat by Vishala Katta Pdf

When a dying corporate professional escapes into a train to somewhere, he finds himself become a storyteller of old mythological tales. Tagging along is ten year old Hari who is looking for his parents he lost in the trains. Together their adventures lead them to debating with priests, dancing with eunuchs, sharing meals and conversing casually about death with random strangers. A runaway wife tags along with these annoying mavericks. Taking her first train she is all ready to be an actress. That night, what begins as a harmless conversations changes their fate completely. What makes them hold on to each other for longer? Do they find what they were looking for? What happens when they bump into each other few years later? But do all of them make it alive? A window seat is all about those conversations with strangers that seem to change you unknowingly.

Author : Brooke Giannetti,Steve Giannetti
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781423650935

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Patina Living by Brooke Giannetti,Steve Giannetti Pdf

The husband and wife design team takes readers on a guided tour of their elegant farm residence in Ojai, CA—a home full of Patina Style inspiration. Brooke and Steve Gianetti offer an intimate look at their life on Patina Farm, the home they designed with an interplay of rustic and modern European charm. Beyond the gorgeously appointed farmhouse, the Giannettis readers through the sheds, outbuildings and gardens where they entertain and enjoy their miniature goats, sheep and donkeys, the chickens and ducks, and dogs. The entire residence is brimming with inspiration for a beautiful life in the popular Patina Style. “We decided to write this book to share why we decided to create this life and what we have learned along the way. We share how we decided where to live, how to design and lay out our property and how to think about the individual spaces. One of the main nuggets of wisdom that we have learned is that there is not only one way to live this life. The idea of this book is to give you some options.”

Author : Jeannine Atkins
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-26
Category : Authorship
ISBN : 1491000554

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Views from a Window Seat by Jeannine Atkins Pdf

Every writer needs inspiration, whether composing fiction, poetry, or fact-based work for an audience of children or adults. Both inspiration and company, Views from a Window Seat: Thoughts on Writing and Life poses and answers questions such as: How do we decide the best way to begin a book? How do we keep up our momentum during the long middle? What are some ways to know we've reached an ending? How do we tell the truth?

Author : USA Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2282 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : DMM:057002656718

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office by USA Patent Office Pdf