Author: Charles Force DeemsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Young women
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
What Now?
Author: Ann PatchettPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006184246X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
“A wise, generous and compact primer for life that could well become a touchstone, readers will return to this book, and probably find something new each time they do; deserves to be given often and enthusiastically.” — Publishers Weekly Based on her lauded commencement address at Sarah Lawrence College, this stirring essay by bestselling author Ann Patchett offers hope and inspiration for anyone at a crossroads, whether graduating, changing careers, or transitioning from one life stage to another. With wit and candor, Patchett tells her own story of attending college, graduating, and struggling with the inevitable question, What now? From student to line cook to teacher to waitress and eventually to award-winning author, Patchett's own life has taken many twists and turns that make her exploration genuine and resonant. As Patchett writes, "'What now?' represents our excitement and our future, the very vitality of life." She highlights the possibilities the unknown offers and reminds us that there is as much joy in the journey as there is in reaching the destination.
90 Days to a New Life Direction
Author: Laura Berman FortgangPublisher: Piatkus Books
ISBN: 9780749925031
Category : Life skills
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Many of us know we would like to do something more meaningful, but working out what that might be can be hard. In this book life coach Laura Berman Fortgang provides an easy-to-follow 90-day, plan aimed at helping you find your new direction and then sett the course the the adventure ahead.
Little Man, What Now?
Author: Hans FalladaPublisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612190642
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The return of a “superb” forgotten masterpiece about a young couple living in Weimar Germany during the Nazi’s rise to power (Graham Greene) Written just before the Nazis came to power, this darkly enchanting novel tells the simple story of a young couple trying to eke out a devent life amidst an economic crisis that’s transforming their country into a place of anger and despair. It was an international bestseller upon its release, and made into a Hollywood movie—by Jewish producers, which prompted the rising Nazis to begin paying ominously close attention to Hans Fallada, even as his novels held out stirring hope for the human spirit. Ultimately, it is the book that led to Hans Fallada’s downfall with the Nazis. It is presented here in its first-ever uncut translation, by Susan Bennett, and with an afterword by Philip Brady that details the calamitous background of the novel, its worldwide reception, and how it turned out to be, for the author, a dangerous book. “Painfully true to life . . . I have read nothing so engaging as Little Man, What Now? for a long time.” —Thomas Mann
What Now
Author: Cameo DalleyPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1789208866
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork undertaken since 2006, the book addresses some of the most topical aspects of remote Aboriginal life in Australia. This includes the role of kinship and family, relationships to land and sea, and cross-cultural relations with non-Aboriginal residents. There is also extensive treatment of contemporary issues relating to alcohol consumption, violence and the impact of systemic ill health. This richly detailed portrayal provides a nuanced account of everyday endurance and social intensity on Mornington Island.
What Now, Emma Lenford?
Author: Kari Lynn M.Publisher: Kari Lynn M.
ISBN: 1370611781
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
Waking up in a deserted Wisconsin woods surrounded by masked members of a family witch-gang at three a.m. on a school night? Check. Becoming captured by a deeply demented elder alongside the one member of society that you probably despise the most? Yep, check. Emma Lenford's life hasn’t been this heart-stopping since she spotted Jon Bon Jovi’s tour bus at the local 7-Eleven. Written as a series of seriously ill-fated situations, What Now, Emma Lenford? is like a sit-com that takes the death-defying to the level of detrimentally hilarious… no television set required.
What Now?
Author: Rachel BialePublisher:
ISBN: 9781646630592
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
"Rachel Biale offers wisdom, clarity and practical suggestions." -- Jill Shugart, MFT, Nursury School Former Director What Now? 2-Minute Tips for Solving Common Parenting Challenges is an essential guide for today's parents who are desperate for practical, developmentally-sound advice. Rachel Biale's guidance builds on over thirty-five years of experience counseling parents of young children. Tips are presented in a lively Q & A format, which will resonate with all parents. You will feel like you are sitting with Rachel over a cup of coffee as she offers parenting tips that are straightforward, easy to put into action, and bring fairly quick results. Most importantly, you will feel supported: you are already doing a good job--certainly the best you can; you just need a little help to get out of your immediate conundrum.
What Now?
Author: Yael ShyPublisher: Parallax Press
ISBN: 1941529836
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Buddhist teachings and meditation offer a roadmap to help college students and others in early adulthood incorporate mindfulness into their lives as a means of facing the myriad struggles unique to this stage of life. Early adulthood is filled with intense emotions and insecurity. What if you never fall in love? What if you can't find work you’re passionate about? You miss home. You miss close friends. You’re lost in the noise of how you think you should be living and worried about wasting what everyone says should be the best years of your life. What Now? shares mindfulness practices to help twentysomethings learn to identify and accept these feelings and respond—not react—to painful and powerful stimuli without pushing them away or getting lost in them. This is not about fixing oneself or being "better." Readers are encouraged to embrace themselves exactly as they are. You are already completely whole, completely loveable, completely worthy. What Now? shares practices that help us to wake up to this fact. This uniquely tumultuous developmental period is a time when many first live away from home and engage in all kinds of experimentation—with ideas, substances, relationships, and who we think we are and want to be in the world. Yael Shy shares her own story and offers basic meditation guides to beginning a practice. She explores the Buddhist framework for what causes suffering and explores ideas about interconnection and social justice as natural outgrowths of meditation practice.
Oh No! What Now?
Author: V. M. BarriosPublisher: PageFree Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9781589610682
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Born and raised in Michigan, Vince Barrios joined the U.S. Navy shortly after his 17th birthday and had seen much of the world before he turned 21. Having lived in Illinois, Virginia, South Carolina and finally Florida, where he now resides, he has always found adventure wherever he traveled. Or, perhaps we should say misadventure has always found him. Join Vince on his journey. Explore new and obscure occupations. Laugh aloud in wonder at the survivor of one disaster after another. it's graceful humor, good storytelling, well-told sadness an dmystery - it's life! Read it and enjoy.
What Matters Now
Author: Gary HamelPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118219082
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This is not a book about one thing. It's not a 250-page dissertation on leadership, teams or motivation. Instead, it's an agenda for building organizations that can flourish in a world of diminished hopes, relentless change and ferocious competition. This is not a book about doing better. It's not a manual for people who want to tinker at the margins. Instead, it's an impassioned plea to reinvent management as we know it—to rethink the fundamental assumptions we have about capitalism, organizational life, and the meaning of work. Leaders today confront a world where the unprecedented is the norm. Wherever one looks, one sees the exceptional and the extraordinary: Business newspapers decrying the state of capitalism. Once-innovative companies struggling to save off senescence. Next gen employees shunning blue chips for social start-ups. Corporate miscreants getting pilloried in the blogosphere. Entry barriers tumbling in what were once oligopolistic strongholds. Hundred year-old business models being rendered irrelevant overnight. Newbie organizations crowdsourcing their most creative work. National governments lurching towards bankruptcy. Investors angrily confronting greedy CEOs and complacent boards. Newly omnipotent customers eagerly wielding their power. Social media dramatically transforming the way human beings connect, learn and collaborate. Obviously, there are lots of things that matter now. But in a world of fractured certainties and battered trust, some things matter more than others. While the challenges facing organizations are limitless; leadership bandwidth isn't. That's why you have to be clear about what really matters now. What are the fundamental, make-or-break issues that will determine whether your organization thrives or dives in the years ahead? Hamel identifies five issues are that are paramount: values, innovation, adaptability, passion and ideology. In doing so he presents an essential agenda for leaders everywhere who are eager to... move from defense to offense reverse the tide of commoditization defeat bureaucracy astonish their customers foster extraordinary contribution capture the moral high ground outrun change build a company that's truly fit for the future Concise and to the point, the book will inspire you to rethink your business, your company and how you lead.
