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Author: Carolyn Crimi
Publisher: Sterling Children's Books
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781454923220
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPom-Pom the kitten threatens to unseat Oswald, a top cat who thinks he's top dog--even to the extent of taking over a favorite chair.
Author: Ashton Applewhite
Publisher: Celadon Books
Published: 2019-03-05
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 1250297249
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor, activist, and TED speaker Ashton Applewhite has written a rousing manifesto calling for an end to discrimination and prejudice on the basis of age. In our youth obsessed culture, we’re bombarded by media images and messages about the despairs and declines of our later years. Beauty and pharmaceutical companies work overtime to convince people to purchase products that will retain their youthful appearance and vitality. Wrinkles are embarrassing. Gray hair should be colored and bald heads covered with implants. Older minds and bodies are too frail to keep up with the pace of the modern working world and olders should just step aside for the new generation. Ashton Applewhite once held these beliefs too until she realized where this prejudice comes from and the damage it does. Lively, funny, and deeply researched, This Chair Rocks traces her journey from apprehensive boomer to pro-aging radical, and in the process debunks myth after myth about late life. Explaining the roots of ageism in history and how it divides and debases, Applewhite examines how ageist stereotypes cripple the way our brains and bodies function, looks at ageism in the workplace and the bedroom, exposes the cost of the all-American myth of independence, critiques the portrayal of elders as burdens to society, describes what an all-age-friendly world would look like, and offers a rousing call to action. It’s time to create a world of age equality by making discrimination on the basis of age as unacceptable as any other kind of bias. Whether you’re older or hoping to get there, this book will shake you by the shoulders, cheer you up, make you mad, and change the way you see the rest of your life. Age pride! “Wow. This book totally rocks. It arrived on a day when I was in deep confusion and sadness about my age. Everything about it, from my invisibility to my neck. Within four or five wise, passionate pages, I had found insight, illumination, and inspiration. I never use the word empower, but this book has empowered me.” —Anne Lamott, New York Times bestselling author
Author: Linda A. Hill
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Published: 2011-01-11
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 142217235X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYou never dreamed being the boss would be so hard. You're caught in a web of conflicting expectations from subordinates, your supervisor, peers, and customers. You're not alone. As Linda Hill and Kent Lineback reveal in Being the Boss, becoming an effective manager is a painful, difficult journey. It's trial and error, endless effort, and slowly acquired personal insight. Many managers never complete the journey. At best, they just learn to get by. At worst, they become terrible bosses. This new book explains how to avoid that fate, by mastering three imperatives: · Manage yourself: Learn that management isn't about getting things done yourself. It's about accomplishing things through others. · Manage a network: Understand how power and influence work in your organization and build a network of mutually beneficial relationships to navigate your company's complex political environment. · Manage a team: Forge a high-performing "we" out of all the "I"s who report to you. Packed with compelling stories and practical guidance, Being the Boss is an indispensable guide for not only first-time managers but all managers seeking to master the most daunting challenges of leadership.
Author: John Lescroart
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2004-12-28
Total Pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9780451211415
DOWNLOAD EBOOK#1 New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart weaves together a story of a privileged youth on trial for murder and an entire city on the brink of panic in this suspensful and stylish Dismas Hardy legal thriller. Although he appears to have reached the top, Dismas Hardy, rainmaker and managing partner of his thriving San Francisco law firm, has lost his faith in the justice system. When his young associate, Amy Wu, brings in a high profile, controversial double murder case, he decides to sit second chair—in defense of a wealthy, privileged young man even he has trouble believing. At the same time, Hardy’s friend Abe Glitsky has just been promoted to deputy chief of the Investigations Bureau, and has trouble of his own. Hounded by a hostile media, distanced from day-to-day police work, Glitsky must struggle against a wave of violence that has put the city on the verge of panic. As the tension builds around them, Hardy and Amy’s search for the truth will take them down a perilous path, and force Hardy to face his own demons in order to clear his client—and save himself.
Author: Peter Opsvik
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2009-05-12
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780393732887
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Scandinavian furniture designer offers insight into his thinking about sitting and explains the philosophy that informs his pioneering chairs. For millions of years humans have led physically active lives. In recent centuries, however, industrialization has fostered passivity and the growing predominance of the sitting posture for more and more people. Increasingly, chairs and furniture for sitting have become standard pieces of equipment in the workplace, institutions, and private homes. These sitting devices were designed according to the established standard of the chair, based on the accepted western manner of sitting. In Rethinking Sitting, Scandinavian industrial designer Peter Opsvik addresses the issue of whether this is the only, and functionally best, design for the human body. When the various authorities on ergonomics promote their one and only “correct” sitting posture, he says all of them are right: Every recommended sitting posture is good. Opsvik sees it as his task to design chairs that allow as many different sitting postures as possible and make it easy to move and change frequently between positions. In this beautifully illustrated reference Opsvik offers insight into his thinking on the subject of sitting and explains the philosophy that informs his furniture designs. Rethinking Sitting contains important information for everyone who is interested, for professional, educational, or personal reasons, in sitting solutions.
Author: Deborah Ellis
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
Published: 2017-10-01
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 1773060872
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNine poignant and empowering short stories from the author of The Breadwinner. The seated child. With a single powerful image, Deborah Ellis draws our attention to nine children and the situations they find themselves in, often through no fault of their own. In each story, a child makes a decision and takes action, be that a tiny gesture or a life-altering choice. Jafar is a child laborer in a chair factory and longs to go to school. Sue sits on a swing as she and her brother wait to have a supervised visit with their father at the children’s aid society. Gretchen considers the lives of concentration camp victims during a school tour of Auschwitz. Mike survives seventy-two days of solitary as a young offender. Barry squirms on a food court chair as his parents tell him that they are separating. Macie sits on a too-small time-out chair while her mother receives visitors for tea. Noosala crouches in a fetid, crowded apartment in Uzbekistan, waiting for an unscrupulous refugee smuggler to decide her fate. These children find the courage to face their situations in ways large and small, in this eloquent collection from a master storyteller. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3 Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6 Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.9 Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres (e.g., stories and poems; historical novels and fantasy stories) in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics.
Author: Rick Carter-Squire
Publisher: R.A. Carter-Squire
Published: 2012-07-18
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 147826019X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn began life in the usual fashion, but in the squalid surroundings of Victorian London his life was neither easy or pleasant. Educated by a priest, abandoned by his father, mentally and physically abused by his prostitute mother, – he seeks refuge at sea. John returns to Whitechapel a grown man, his cruel mother is dead. Years of brutality have been lifted from his broad shoulders until he begins to see only the dark and seamy side of his surroundings. A woman enters his life who seems different, clean...one bright spot in his gloomy existence. For different reasons, they plunge into marriage with catastrophic results. Shattered, John concocts a deadly plan filled with revenge, remorse and the memory of his mother.
Author: Bob Selden
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 1459616391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCongratulations. You got the promotion - you're finally THE boss. You've been rewarded for knowing your stuff BUT as a first-time manager, you may not know how to be a good manager. Where do you start? How do you get things done? Bob Selden's always practical book offers seasoned advice to help you make a success of your new role. It is the complete How to for managing and leading. Learn how to best manage your boss, your people and yourself. Packed with handy tips and case studies you'll find yourself referring to this book again and again for practical suggestions on everything, including motivating, delegating, influencing, coaching, managing time, performance appraisals, hiring and firing.
Author: Fei YiNvSheng
Publisher: Funstory
Published: 2019-11-16
Total Pages: 883
ISBN-13: 1647593573
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn innocent zombie: "Why are you trying to kill me..."In the face of such brutal slaughter, would it be able to survive?
Author: Ridgwell Cullum
Publisher: Ryerson
Published: 1922
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story itself has to do with a war between rival companies in the woodpulp business in Canada and Labrador. The hero, Leslie Standing, a financial adventurer and a British patriot, manages to trick Hellbeam, the company's President, out of ten million dollars. Standing organises an opposition company to demolish his rival, when Hellbeam begins operations to land him in the penitentiary. Standing takes to the forest under an assumed name, leaving his business in the hands of his foreman, and becomes a preacher in the remote camps. Lumber camp sabotage, the rising of a Soviet inspired by Scandinavian money and a bloody termination of the riots, gives plenty of zest and fire.
