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How to Be Happy in This Crazy World is a life manual that teaches key principles that you can follow to be happy in this world, despite the many stresses and pressures that this world offers. The truth is that life is a struggle. There will be good times and bad times. Life is an adventure, and happiness is a choice. According to official records, every 40 seconds, somebody in this world dies by suicide. Indeed, something very wrong is going on here;...
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Handy (and often hilarious) hacks from the resourceful TV hero. Includes illustrations!
For over thirty years, the name MacGyver has been synonymous with astonishing feats of ingenuity, from fixing a car with nothing but water and egg whites to busting out of jail using a hairpin and a pair of repurposed handcuffs to, of course, saving the world with his favorite weapon, a simple paperclip. What you might not know is that every trick that the resourceful...
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While on a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard, journalist and novelist Paul Hemphill wrote of that pivotal moment in the late sixties when traditional defenders of the hillbilly roots of country music were confronted by the new influences and business realities of pop music. The demimonde of the traditional Nashville venues (Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, Robert's Western World, and the Ryman Auditorium) and first-wave artists (Roy Acuff, Ernest Tubb, and Lefty...
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What got us here will not get us there. The context in which we now live, trade, and work in the 21st century has little in common with that of Frederick Taylor or Henry Ford. What is revered as leadership today is often nothing more than a destructive set of obsolete behaviors that harm individuals and societies, and that must be reinvented.
Dare to Un-Lead explores the opportunities we have to collectively transform leadership from a top-down hierarchical...
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The must-read summary of David D'Alessandro and Michele Owens' book: "Executive Warfare: 10 Rules of Engagement for Winning Your War for Success".
This complete summary of the ideas from David D'Alessandro and Michele Owens' book "Executive Warfare" shows how being smart, hard-working and able to generate results will generally get you promoted when you first begin working for an organization. However, once you get to senior management level, these...
3186) Marie Antoinette / 3C
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About Marie Antoinette: The eyes of the court are on Marie Antoinette. Times change, and even the most fashionable queens go out of style. Drawing comparison of the gluttonous excess of Marie's era to the decadent materialism of the present day, Marie Antoinette holds up a mirror to our contemporary society, which just might be entertaining itself to death. About 3C: The war in Vietnam is over and Brad, an ex-serviceman, lands in L.A. to start...
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The Year's Work in Showgirls Studies is a fan culture volume that deconstructs how and why Showgirls, a 1995 drama with a female lead bent on becoming a famous performer in Las Vegas, became a much-contested cult film despite being a critical failure when it released.
The collection orchestrates a conversation between scholarly essay work and archival documentation offering a magnificent representation of the array of responses generated by the...
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The fallout from the pandemic has yet to be measured, but the way we work will never be the same again. In this accessible, interactive guide, longtime organizational coach and consultant Sharon Darmody reveals what a unique opportunity this has presented to rebuild our working lives from the ground up-to make work work again-and shows readers how to do just that.
3190) Making It Work! How to Effectively Manage Maternity Leave Career Transitions: An Employer's Guide
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Making It Work! How to Effectively Manage Maternity Leave Career Transitions: An Employer's Guide was developed for anyone who employs, leads, manages, trains, coaches, or otherwise supports pregnant, adoptive, and parenting women in the workplace, including, but not limited to, Human Resource (HR) professionals and practitioners, managers and leaders, business owners, consultants, coaches, and career development practitioners. Whether you have been...
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Exposing a subculture only beginning to enter the imagination of mainstream America, this is the story of live action role-playing (LARP) games. A hybrid of games such as Dungeons Dragons, historical reenactment, fandom, and good old-fashioned pretend LARP games are thriving and this book explores its multifaceted culture and related phenomenon, including the Society for Creative Anachronism, a medieval reenactment group that boasts more than 32,000...
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In this philosophical and theological study, John Gager undermines the Apostle Paul's rejection of Judaism, conversion to Christianity, and the founding of Christian anti-Judaism. Through meticulous research and well-supported argument, he finds that the rise of Christianity occurred well after Paul's death and attributes the distortion of the Apostle's views to early and later Christians. Though these elites ascribed a rejection-replacement theology...
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A través del trabajo de psicoterapia de Paul, Georges Escribano De Lacamoire nos muestra cómo se construye una personalidad mediante la interacción continua de los registros psico-corporal, social y económico. De hecho, estas tres dimensiones se encuentran en un flujo constante en cada individuo y, por lo tanto, en las organizaciones en las que se integra, como las organizaciones familiares, sociales y profesionales. Según el grado de madurez,...
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Nicknamed "the father of public relations," Edward Bernays (1891—1995) was a pioneer in the fields of propaganda and PR. Combining theories on crowd psychology with the psychoanalytical ideas of his uncle, Sigmund Freud, Bernays elucidated how corporations and politicians could manipulate public opinion. His seminal 1928 book, Propaganda laid out how propaganda could be used to regiment the collective mind in a variety of areas, including government,...
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Cancel culture addresses real harm...and sometimes causes more. It's time to think this through.
"Cancel" or "call-out" culture is a source of much tension and debate in American society. The infamous "Harper's Letter," signed by public intellectuals of both the left and right, sought to settle the matter and only caused greater division. Originating as a way for marginalized and disempowered people to take down more powerful abusers, often with...
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Thai Stick is a brilliant story of the surfers and watermen who pioneered the trans-Pacific pot trade. Adventurous and often hilarious, the book's narrative blows open one of the last remaining secrets of the hippie era. It also exposes the dark side of the business and its occasionally tragic consequences. Thai Stick is at once an authoritative work of history and an intense, highly entertaining read.
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Many people believe that the great blessing of Salvation through Christ is forgiveness of sin. However, there was forgiveness of sins before the ministry of Christ through the Levitical priesthood, as they offered the sacrifices of bullocks, lambs, and doves. The one thing that the Levitical priesthood could not provide that Christ the High Priest did, is new life to mankind as divine offspring of God the Father. The restoration of this holy bloodline...
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From burlesque show to fashion runway, magazine cover to Internet video, fashion icon and "burlesque superheroine" (Vanity Fair) Dita Von Teese has undergone more strokes of red lipstick, bursts of hair spray, boxes of blue-black hair dye and pats of powder in a month than a drag queen could dream of in a lifetime. Whether she's dazzling audiences swirling in a towering martini glass in Swarovski-covered pasties and stilettos or sparking camera flashes...
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The must-read summary of Simon Sinek's book: "Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't".
This complete summary of the ideas from Simon Sinek's book "Leaders Eat Last" states that true leadership is all about putting the lower employees first. Real leaders take care of team members and focus on their well-being. According to Sinek, leaders can create a Circle of Safety around their team to make sure that they protect their...
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Ready to move your team from chaos to collaboration? Kimberly and Coach walk you through one of the easiest ways to hack corporate culture that will add not only reduce conflict but when it does, show you how to harness conflict as an innovation engine.
In this book Kimberly & Coach cover:
• The easiest hack for company culture to start moving towards collaboration
• Languages of Value that provide a foundation for collaboration, culture,...
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