2020 Year of Plenty

Author: Dr Afiniki Akanet
Publisher: Affinity Global Enterprises Limited
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 161

Book Description
In her usual conversational style, Dr. Akanet, through her perspective as a GP (family doctor) and mother to two young children, shares her ups and downs of 2020, while trying to move house. Moving home, particularly when it involves buying or selling a house, has been noted to be one of the three most stressful life events, and doing so during a pandemic would make it even more challenging. 2020 brought with it challenges and changes most of us never expected, taking some of us to almost breaking point. This book will take you through one family’s journey, to discover how they survived such a tough year, and reflect on whether there could really be blessings to count for 2020. Based on true events, with stories about parenting, faith, marriage, patients, estate agents and immigrant perspectives, this book will bring you smiles, tears, inspiration and hope for the days ahead. Book Reviews: “A record of the real-life experiences of one medical family as the novel Coronavirus, emanating from Wuhan in China, slowly embraced the whole world. It is often amusing and sometimes poignant in its detail of her days in the 'new normal' and very surreal world into which we were all suddenly plunged!” - Paul Sheffield “I expected a book about 2020 to be all doom and gloom, but was surprised to find myself laughing out loud at times." - Dr. Anna Nguyen (GP) “Afiniki is not only a talented mother and professional, but an eternal feel-good optimist. If anyone is going to see the good in 2020, it is going to be Afiniki.” - Trish Adudu (BBC presenter) “This book is a very interesting read, and one which I am sure will be of great interest to school students in a couple of generations time” - Margaret Greenway “There’s no doubt that 2020 will live in all of our memories as a year like no other! But what have we learned through it? And what can we take away, moving forward? Have a read of one reflection of not only what was lost this year, but also what was gained.” - Diane Rickard

2020

Author: Stella
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781527271432
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76

Book Description
★★★★ 2020 - The Year We Were All Cancelled! ★★★★★ Stella, former political cartoonist for the Morning Star from 2015-2020, now the weekly cartoonist at uncancelled.co.uk, revisits 2020, the strangest year of our lives. Stella is known in the radical feminist world for her uncompromising, yet unmalicious style. To quote the Morning Star's Arts reviewer: "She is one of this country's most incisive political cartoonists... she frequently subverts the mundanity of the everyday with barbed commentaries on the political scene".

The Surrender Project

Author: Lauren Kerr
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 198229664X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 179

Book Description
Lauren’s first book ‘Life Above Zero’ helps people be in control of their mindset to create a life, business and career that brings them fulfilment. This book is for any other successful women out there in corporate or entrepreneurs who are then faced with the challenge of slowing down and enjoying their success, leaning into their femininity and preparing for the mental shifts that come with motherhood - a rite of passage that seems to change with each generation with the exceeding demands on women. Think of it like ‘Sex and the City’ mixed with ‘Eat Pray Love’. An uncensored, personal journey talking about things a lot of women in the 21st century are thinking... but are too scared to say out loud.

Who Do We Become?

Author: John Sanei
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN: 1776192176
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 123

Book Description
'I know that what I've learnt in the past two years will help me for the rest of my life. My hope is that you will see yourself reflected in my own journey, and . . . consider who you will become in this new world of ours. Who we all might become.' If you're suffering from a crisis of meaning, you're not alone. In this powerful new book, future strategist John Sanei shares how he found ways to cope with the uncertainty that has been all around us in the past two years. Lockdown meant his career came to a screeching halt. He was living with his parents and then had to battle loneliness until he started to reassess who he was and what he wanted from life. Infused with empathy and personal anecdote, Who Do We Become? explores our individual responsibility to evolve into more decent, dynamic versions of ourselves, our businesses and humanity as a whole – especially in times of crisis. The book is divided into three sections. In Part 1: ANGUISH, John explores how to courageously mourn the loss of our 'normal' pre-COVID world. Part 2: ABNORMAL, shows us how to understand this new environment and recognise that uncertainty is the new normal. Then, in Part 3: ADVENTURE, John provides a toolkit for us to forge out into the new world, to succeed and recognise the signs of rebirth and renewal. Travel with John as he maps out our strange, new world and lays down a path to reframe our thinking, to recognise our discomfort, to survive and thrive.

Let's Go

Author: Anne Fish
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 1739831918
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 190

Book Description
MY NAME IS ANNE FISH AND I AM THE MUM OF BENJYFISHY, A FORTNITE PLAYER WITH NRG ESPORTS.Benjy was thirteen when Fortnite Season 1 was released in 2017. Within only a few months of playing the game, Benjy had achieved his goal of surpassing his school friends. He took to playing Fortnite like a fish to water. He was a natural. He had found a game he was committed to and realised he had a chance of fulfilling a bigger goal: to become a professional esports player.This book follows Benjy's journey from the early days of his sporting ambitions to qualifying for the 2019 Fortnite World Cup. You'll find out about his duo partnership with MrSavage, and his decision to sign with the esports organisation NRG, as well as all our memories from the World Cup in New York and the various international LAN competitions we have been to since.

Lonely at '15

Author: Donna K. del Villar
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 172

Book Description
About the Book Lonely at ‘15 is the true story of Donna K. del Villar’s almost nine decades of life. She vividly describes her lonely but loved childhood, her dozens of moves over the years, and her loving relationship with her second husband, Ben. Donna keeps a positive outlook as she navigates and ultimately succeeds through all of her struggles, which include being a teenage mother, dropping out of high school, and divorcing her high school sweetheart, who ended up being a convicted felon. About the Author Donna K. del Villar is currently eighty-seven years young and firmly believes that God has life already planned for us. In His plan for us, there will be downs that make us stronger and ups that make us happy. She also believes that He puts fate into our lives, which led her to meeting the love of her life. She recently applied at the local Boulder City Hospital as a volunteer and is awaited acceptance. She hopes to live long enough to see her great-grandchildren graduate from high school.

Year Of The Rat

Author: Jorah Kai
Publisher: More Publishing
ISBN: 1959604007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 496

Book Description
THE YEAR OF THE METAL RAT, 2020, was a time of panic, uncertainty, and great division. CHINA, VIETNAM, CANADA, SAUDI ARABIA, ITALY, ARGENTINA, AMERICA, JAPAN, AUSTRALIA, PHILIPPINES, NETHERLANDS, GUATEMALA, UGANDA, THE U.K., SINGAPORE, RUSSIA… As the pandemic spread, some wore masks and socially distanced to protect the vulnerable, while others protested all public health measures as a form of tyranny and caused loud and obnoxious mass disruptions to critical infrastructure in a jarring display of 'personal freedom.' Fake news and echo chambers enabled 'alternative facts,' while unhinged narratives and cartoonish conspiracies ran rampant, often trumping coverage of legitimate and existential converging catastrophes. In YEAR OF THE RAT, the sequel to the international best-seller 'The Invisible War' (Kai's Diary), Jorah Kai documents the world’s largest ‘Zero Covid bubble’ while the outside world handles the pandemic uniquely. Reaching out to friends across the globe, he weaves their stories together. Thirty-six writers from 33 cities in 16 countries share their daily struggles, hopes, and fears for the YEAR OF THE RAT as the SARSCOV2 virus spreads catastrophe to every corner of the globe. "It’s ... the metaphor of the yin and the yang. I’d say right now; we are in the yin. It’s a kind of disaster. It’s sad. And on the yang side... it looks like some sort of a mathematical balance that I cannot explain." - JCVD “I would have done the whole thing for a donut and a tuna fish sandwich. The money meant nothing. It was the opportunity to at least prove to myself that I wasn’t a liar, that I wasn’t living a life of disillusionment. When you think of yourself as being a very creative person, and turn around and realize you’ve been leading a lie.” - Sylvester Stallone (Rocky). "At the beginning of the pandemic, Jorah Kai led a plucky band of frontline workers and activists to fight the pandemic with science. Some called him a harbinger, others a ‘pandemic guru’ as they navigated an increasingly bizarre world of book deals, TV appearances, speaking engagements, and a recovery event with his childhood hero, martial arts movie star Jeanne Claude Van Damme. But nothing could prepare him for what came next..." - The Narrator

Philosophy of Witchcraft

Author: Steven Leslie Golding
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665589558
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 85

Book Description
Historians have studied witchcraft for years, and many in medieval times were fascinated by this misunderstood religion and belief system. For author Steven Leslie Golding, it’s one of the most positive, friendly, and nature-based religions that calls to him. In Philosophy of Witchcraft, he shares his story of his experiences, telling how he turned to Wicca more than six years in his early fifties. He discusses the history of witchcraft and offers a look at what ancient witches faced in medieval Britain. In addition, Golding shares an overview of the elements of the modern pagan witchcraft such as its festivals, weekend courses, rituals, the witch’s tools, telepathy and clairvoyance, the imagery of witchcraft, spells, astral travel, and more. Drawing on his life as a solitary witch, one not part of a coven, Golding gives keen insight into to the often-misunderstood world of witchcraft and the occult.

Dead Men Don't Tell Tales

Author: Guy Martin
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473586933
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
Guy Martin can't sit still. He has to keep pushing - both himself and whatever machine he is piloting - to the extreme. He's a doer, not a talker. That applies whether Guy's competing in a self-supported 750-mile mountain bike race across Arizona, or trying to reach 300mph in a standing mile on the 800-horsepower motorbike he built in his shed. And during his TV adventures, travelling through Japan, winning records for the world's fastest tractor, re-creating the famous Steve McQueen Great Escape jump, discovering the toil and sacrifice of the D-Day landings and trying to cut the mustard as a Battle of Britain pilot. Guy's become a dad now and he's hoping that one day his daughter will grow up to be a better welder than he is. Oh, and he's still getting up at 5am to work on trucks in for service or to be out on his tractor, working the Lincolnshire land he's always called home. This is Guy Martin's latest book, in his own words, on the last four years of his life that make the rest of us look like we're in slow motion. We're here for a good time, not a long time. To Guy, if it's worth doing, it's worth dying for.

Narratives and Strategies of Effective Leadership in Community Colleges

Author: Nacco, Stephen Damian
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 299

Book Description
In American higher education, community colleges present new opportunities for many, embodying the democratic essence since their early roots. Originally conceived as junior colleges preparing students for university transfers, these institutions have undergone a transformative journey, evolving into the comprehensive, open-access pillars of education that define our present landscape. Despite a shared mission, a disparity exists among community colleges, with some rising to prominence as leaders in the community-college movement. Amidst the challenges posed by the two World Wars, economic fluctuations, and societal shifts, community colleges have adapted to serve diverse needs, encompassing workforce development, community education, and developmental studies. Narratives and Strategies of Effective Leadership in Community Colleges takes on the challenge faced by these institutions—maintaining excellence amid the evolving demands of a dynamic society. Narratives and Strategies of Effective Leadership in Community Colleges is a pivotal resource for higher-education practitioners navigating the complex realm of leadership challenges in community colleges. It portrays community colleges as national treasures in higher education. Beyond mere success stories, each chapter details the intricacies of effective leadership. Targeting governing boards, faculty, leaders, and administrators, the book provides invaluable insights into strategic planning, student support, campus revitalization, and financial management. It serves as a crucial guide for those aspiring to elevate their institutions.