After high school, real life comes at you pretty hard and fast. Developing the right skills and knowledge will propel your life toward success and help you avoid some of the most common mistakes. As a young adult, you will be immediately faced with some of your life's most significant and important decisions. These decisions' positive or negative impact will be felt in the decades to come. Being ready to tackle adult life successfully requires learning how to set and achieve goals, find and land a job, develop marketable skills, go to college or trade school without student loans, buy a car, understand credit, develop sound people skills, and discover how to have a happy and content life. This book lays out 18 common-sense things that every adult should know. Life is sometimes challenging, but having the right skills and knowledge will unlock opportunities and propel your adult life toward financial, relational, and professional success. Learn more by visiting our website at www.18thingsiwish.com.
Are you an adventurer asking what to do in bangkok? Somebody who is looking for extreme, unusual and crazy things to do in this city? Or do you know bangkok so well, that you’re looking for new, unknown attractions? I have written a bangkok travel guide with 18 crazy things to do in bangkok. Most of these attractions are completely off the beaten track, far away from the main tourism. In this book you will find informations about abandoned buildings and airplanes, spooky museums, crazy markets, unusual restaurants and much more. Doing these things will make your stay in bangkok unforgettable, and you will definitely have something to talk about at home! The guide for people who want to live cheap and experience exciting things This city guide introduces amazing places to see in bangkok. It’s a city full of surprises where you can have great adventures and unforgettable experiences at a very low price, or even for free! The ebook provides useful informations about these exciting things to do in bangkok. Some of them are dangerous, illegal and on your own risk. Explore abandoned buildings Bangkok has a lot of abandoned buildings due to the financial crash in 1997. Skyscrapers, malls and other buildings just couldn’t be finished anymore. Now they are just ghost towers, spooky places. In the ebook I introduce such buildings and describe how to access them. Furthermore there is a chapter about an abandoned airplane in bangkok’s suburb. Amazing places to explore! Extraordinary and unusual restaurants In bangkok there are so many crazy restaurants where the food even fades into the background sometimes! In the ebook I write about a complete dark restaurant, a café full of cats, a robot restaurant, a condom restaurant (yes, you heard it right!), a restaurant in central bangkok where you can catch your own seafood, places to eat insects and scorpions in bangkok and the second largest restaurant in the world! After reading you will definitely know what to do in bangkok when you become hungry! Cheap hostels, crazy markets, scary museums and much more! A train that drives directly through a market, so close that the groceries disappear under the train? A forensic museum with real prenatal cadavers preserved in glass boxes? A hostel for less than 3 dollars per night? That’s what you can find in bangkok!
PARENTING NEVER ENDS. From the founders of the #1 site for parents of teens and young adults comes an essential guide for building strong relationships with your teens and preparing them to successfully launch into adulthood The high school and college years: an extended roller coaster of academics, friends, first loves, first break-ups, driver’s ed, jobs, and everything in between. Kids are constantly changing and how we parent them must change, too. But how do we stay close as a family as our lives move apart? Enter the co-founders of Grown and Flown, Lisa Heffernan and Mary Dell Harrington. In the midst of guiding their own kids through this transition, they launched what has become the largest website and online community for parents of fifteen to twenty-five year olds. Now they’ve compiled new takeaways and fresh insights from all that they’ve learned into this handy, must-have guide. Grown and Flown is a one-stop resource for parenting teenagers, leading up to—and through—high school and those first years of independence. It covers everything from the monumental (how to let your kids go) to the mundane (how to shop for a dorm room). Organized by topic—such as academics, anxiety and mental health, college life—it features a combination of stories, advice from professionals, and practical sidebars. Consider this your parenting lifeline: an easy-to-use manual that offers support and perspective. Grown and Flown is required reading for anyone looking to raise an adult with whom you have an enduring, profound connection.
Based upon his weekly Harvard Business Review columns (which is one of the most popular columns on HBR.com, receiving hundreds of thousands of unique page views a month), 18 Minutes clearly shows how busy people can cut through all the daily clutter and distractions and find a way to focus on those key items which are truly the top priorities in our lives. Bregman works from the premise that the best way to combat constant and distracting interruptions is to create productive distractions of one's own. Based upon a series of short bite-sized chapters, his approach allows us to safely navigate through the constant chatter of emails, text messages, phone calls, and endless meetings that prevent us from focusing our time on those things that are truly important to us. Mixing first-person insights along with unique case studies, Bregman sprinkles his charming book with pathways which help guide us --pathways that can get us on the right trail in 18 minutes or less.
“I wonder sometimes if there’s something to the old superstition about the number thirteen. Maybe that superstition was originally created by the mothers in some tribe who noticed that in their children’s thirteenth year, they suddenly became possessed by evil spirits. Because it did seem that whenever Taz was around, things spilled and shattered, calm turned into chaos, and tempers were lost.” So laments the mother of one thirteen-year-old boy, Taz, a teen who, overnight it seemed, went from a small, sweet, loving boy to a hulking, potty-mouthed, Facebook/MySpace–addicted C student who didn’t even bother to hide his scorn for being anywhere in the proximity of his parents. As this startling transformation floors journalist Beth Harpaz and her husband, Elon, Harpaz tries to make sense of a bizarre teenage wilderness of $100 sneakers, clouds of Axe body spray (to hide the scent of pot?!), and cell phone bills so big they require nine-by-twelve envelopes. In the process, she begins chronicling her son’s hilarious, sometimes harrowing, indiscretions, blaming herself (“I am a terrible mother” becomes her steadfast refrain), Googling unfamiliar teenage slang, reading every parenting book she can get her hands on, and querying friends who also have teens. From a derailed family vacation where Taz is more interested in trying to get a cell phone connection than looking at the world’s largest trees (boring!), to a prom where Taz is caught with liquor, to a trip to Australia sans parents in which Taz actually doesn’t get into any trouble and manages to do his own laundry, the events that mark Taz’s newfound and troublesome independence are told with a wry and poignant voice by a woman who’s both wistful for the past and trying her hardest to understand her son’s head-scratching new behavior. In her quest to infiltrate his world by spying on his MySpace page (where he claims he’s twenty-two), Harpaz expands her online monitoring and soon becomes a Facebook addict. She also reflects on her own youth and entry into middle age, and in the process achieves hard-won wisdom. A book for any parent of teens—be they girls or boys—13 Is the New 18 is a delightfully comical foray into today’s increasingly widening generation gap and one mom’s attempt to figure it all out with little guidance and a whole lot of misplaced guilt.
Outlines the steps for creating 20 safe homemade projects that demonstrate key engineering and mechanical principles, from a pyrotechnic rocket made from an empty juice carton to a light-sensitive robot mouse that follows a flashlight path.
I am writing this book because I messed up, and if it wasn't for me opening my mind and having a few people around me take the time to truly love me and help me develop, even in my worst times, I would have been a complete failure. Although I cannot physically be involved in your life, I desire that me-taking the time out to put this book together for you-will have the same and even greater impact on your life. As you're reading this book, I want you to remember that no matter where you are in your life, you have hope. If you are not perfect while or after reading this book, no worries because each breath is a new beginning, and no one is perfect to begin with. The main difference between winners and losers is that losers quit. You will never get to where you want to be if you quit. Everyone falls, but champions get back up. Are you a champion? YES! So, let's get back up, and make things happen!
{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Arial;}} \viewkind4\uc1\pard\lang2057\fs18 Coney Island, 1911: Coralie Sardie is the daughter of a self-proclaimed scientist and professor who acts as the impresario of The Museum of Extraordinary Things, a boardwalk freak show offering amazement and entertainment to the masses. An extraordinary swimmer, Coralie appears as the Mermaid alongside performers like the Wolfman, the Butterfly Girl,and a 100 year old turtle, in her father's ""museum"". She swims regularly in New York's Hudson River, and one night stumbles upon a striking young man alone in the woods photographing moon-lit trees. From that moment, Coralie knows her life will never be the same. \par The dashing photographer Coralie spies is Eddie Cohen, a Russian immigrant who has run away from his father's Lower East Side Orthodox community. As Eddie photographs the devastation on the streets of New York following the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, he becomes embroiled in the mystery behind a young woman's disappearance and the dispute between factory owners and labourers. In the tumultuous times that characterized life in New York between the world wars, Coralie and Eddie's lives come crashing together in Alice Hoffman's mesmerizing, imaginative, and romantic new novel. \par }
