I Hate Red, You're Fired!
I Hate Red, You're Fired!

Author: William W. Stubbs

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Published: 2004-10-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780810955776

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Hailed By Architectural Digest as one of the top 100 designers and architects at work today, William W. Stubbs has designed urban penthouses, vacation retreats, and country mansions around the globe from Hawaii to Moscow. In this lively, irreverent memoir, Stubbs recounts the extraordinary, exasperating, often hilarious adventures that have colored his stellar career. Illustrated with more than 150 color photographs of the spaces Stubbs has transformed, the book details the activities and thought processes that went into some of his most spectacular projects. These include the reconstruction of an ordinary Mexican vacation house into a mansion worthy of its stunning views of Acapulco Bay, the renovation of a 100-year-old schoolhouse in Newport, Rhode Island, into stylish apartments for senior citizens; and the project that inspired the book's title, a Houston penthouse designed around the color red, which caused his impulsive client to fire him over the phone. (Of course, when the client saw the finished apartment, he loved it-to the point that Stubbs had trouble convincing him to abandon the color in subsequent renovations.) Also featured is Stubbs's most breathtaking project to date: a country dacha in the Ukraine that he transformed from a dowdy Soviet retreat into an estate fit for a king. Its lavish main house boasts not only jewel-like rooms, but also a unique "hidden" bar, a state-of-the art home theater, and an astonishing underground wine cellar. The main house is surrounded by a sublime park, also designed by Stubbs, featuring a man-made lake and waterfalls, a gazebo, and charming bridges even Olmsted and Vaux would happily claim as their own. This entertaining volume is a rarity-a beautiful design book that people will actually want to read. Book jacket.

American Hardcore (Second Edition)
American Hardcore (Second Edition)

Author: Steven Blush

Publisher: Feral House

Published: 2010-10-19

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 1932595988

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"American Hardcore sets the record straight about the last great American subculture"—Paper magazine Steven Blush's "definitive treatment of Hardcore Punk" (Los Angeles Times) changed the way we look at Punk Rock. The Sony Picture Classics–distributed documentary American Hardcore premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. This revised and expanded second edition contains hundreds of new bands, thirty new interviews, flyers, a new chapter ("Destroy Babylon"), and a new art gallery with over 125 rare photos and images.

Change Your Aura, Change Your Life
Change Your Aura, Change Your Life

Author: Barbara Y. Martin

Publisher: TarcherPerigee

Published: 2016-04-26

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 110198306X

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2017 Nautilus Award Winner A new guide to the source of your spiritual energy--the aura--from renowned spiritual teachers Barbara Y. Martin and Dimitri Moraitis. Discover your source of unlimited spiritual energy! Everything you think, feel, and do radiates a spiritual energy that comes through in various colors and hues: This is your aura. The aura is your spiritual blueprint. By changing the quality of your aura, you can automatically change the quality of your life. In this groundbreaking book, renowned aura expert Barbara Martin, known as the Mozart of Metaphysics, leads you through her technique for improving the aura--a technique she has taught to thousands. -Whether you see auras or not, this breakthrough book reveals: -What the various colors of the aura mean and say about you. -How to work with the power rays of spiritual enrichment--including love, prosperity healing, and wisdom. -More than 90 meditations to deepen personal relationships, advance your career, and transform destructive emotions. -How to become more spiritual and closer to God.

The Darling Dahlias and the Red Hot Poker
The Darling Dahlias and the Red Hot Poker

Author: Susan Wittig Albert

Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group

Published: 2022-06-07

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1952558190

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It’s Labor Day weekend, 1935, and members of the Darling Dahlias—the garden club in little Darling, Alabama—are trying to keep their cool at the end of a sizzling summer. This isn’t easy, though, since there’s a firebug on the loose in Darling. He—or she!—strikes without apparent rhyme or reason, and things have gotten to the point where nobody feels safe. What’s more, a dangerous hurricane is poised to hurl itself in Darling’s direction, while a hurricane of a different sort is making a whirlwind campaign stop: the much-loved-much-hated senator from Louisiana, Huey P. Long, whom President Roosevelt calls the “most dangerous man in America.” Add Ophelia Snow’s secret heartthrob, Liz Lacy’s Yankee lover, and the Magnolia Ladies’ garden of red hot pokers, fire-red salvia, and hot pink cosmos, and you have a volatile mix that might just burst into flames at any moment. ​Author Susan Wittig Albert has brought us another delightful assortment of richly human characters who face the challenges of the Great Depression with courage and grace. Her books remind us that friends offer the best of themselves to each other, community is what holds us together, and even when life seems too hot to handle, there’s always hope.

Fire Is Your Water
Fire Is Your Water

Author: Jim Minick

Publisher: Ohio University Press

Published: 2017-03-15

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 0804040796

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Sacred chants are Ada Franklin’s power and her medicine. By saying them, she can remove warts, stanch bleeding, and draw the fire from burns. At age twenty, her reputation as a faith healer defines her in her rural Pennsylvania community. But on the day in 1953 that her family’s barn is consumed by flame, her identity as a healer is upended. The heat, the roar of the blaze, and the bellows of the trapped cows change Ada. For the first time, she fears death and—for the first time—she doubts God. With her belief goes her power to heal. Then Ada meets an agnostic named Will Burk and his pet raven, Cicero. Fire Is Your Water is acclaimed memoirist Jim Minick’s first novel. Built on magical realism and social observation in equal measure, it never gives way to sentimentality and provides an insider’s glimpse into the culture of Appalachia. A jealous raven, a Greek chorus of one, punctuates the story with its judgments on the characters and their actions, until a tragic accident brings Ada and Will together in a deeper connection.

Fire Season
Fire Season

Author: Hollye Dexter

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2015-04-14

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 1631529757

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Who would you be if you lost everything? Hollye Dexter and her husband Troy woke one night to find their house ablaze. To escape the fire, they had to jump from their second-story window with their toddler son—and then watch their house and home-based businesses burn to the ground. Over the next two years, the family went bankrupt, lost their cars and another home, and got dropped by their best friends. As the outer layers of her life were stripped away, Dexter began to unravel emotionally; but then she found herself on the brink of losing her marriage, and she realized that if she was going to save her family, she would have to pull herself back together somehow. As she fought to reassemble the pieces of the life she’d had, Dexter discovered that a shattered heart has the ability to regenerate in a mighty way; that even in the midst of disaster, you can find your place; and that when everything you identify with is gone, you are free to discover who you really are. Poignant and inspiring, Fire Season is a story for anyone who has ever lost hope—and found it again.

Ask a Manager
Ask a Manager

Author: Alison Green

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2018-05-01

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0399181822

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From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together