Our Exceptional Friend
Author: Emma Shortis
Publisher:
Published: 2021-08-18
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781743797839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy it's time for Australia to rethink its broken relationship with the world's greatest superpower: America.
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Our Exceptional Friend
Author: Emma Shortis
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
Published: 2021-08-18
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1743587740
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Our Exceptional Friend, Emma Shortis draws on history, current affairs and questions of morality to mount a compelling and unique case as to why Australia's relationship with the United States needs a serious overhaul. Australians are told that we have two choices in this world: the United States, or China. Faced with that choice, Australian governments of all persuasions have always sided with America – even if that means siding with a President like Donald J. Trump. While the election of Joe Biden has led many of us to hope that we might be heading for a calmer, more compassionate world, and a reset of Australia and America’s ‘special relationship,’ going back to ‘normal’ is not only a bad idea – it's a dangerous and immoral one. Our Exceptional Friend challenges the old assumption that we have no option other than to submit to one global power at the expense of another, and asks Australians to really examine why it is that we welcome American dominance. In this, our 70th year of the Australia–US alliance, historian Emma Shortis argues it's time to take a fresh and unflinching look at our special relationship, and examine whose interests it really serves. We don’t have to make a binary choice between subservience to an increasingly broken democracy and abandoning the alliance. There are other options. How can we make it better for us, and make the world a better place for it?
My Friends
Author: Emmanuel Bove
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2019-05-07
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 1681373130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBove's tale of a World War I veteran living in postwar Paris, searching for friendship and warmth, is an ironic, entertaining masterpiece by one of France's favorite authors. My Friends is Emmanuel Bove’s first and most famous book, and it begins simply, though unusually, enough: “When I wake up, my mouth is open. My teeth are furry: it would be better to brush them in the evening, but I am never brave enough.” Victor Baton is speaking, and he is a classic little man, of no talent or distinction or importance and with no illusions that he has any of those things, either; in fact, if he is exceptional, it is that life’s most basic transactions seem to confound him more than they do the rest of us. All Victor wants is to be loved, all he wants is a friend, and as he strays through the streets of Paris in search of love or friendship or some fleeting connection, we laugh both at Victor’s meekness and at his odd pride, but we feel with him, too. Victor is after all a kind of everyman, the indomitable knight of human fragility. And, in spite of everything, he, or at least his creator, is some kind of genius, investing the back streets and rented rooms of the city and the unsorted moments of daily life with a weird and unforgettable clarity.
Some of My Best Friends are Books
Author: Judith Wynn Halsted
Publisher: Great Potential Press, Inc.
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 0910707960
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecommends books for gifted readers that provide insights and coping skills for issues they may face from preschool through high school, featuring more than three hundred titles with brief summaries, organized by reading levels; and includes an index arranged by theme.
Exceptional
Author: Dick Cheney
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-09-01
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1501115448
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new book by former Vice President and #1 New York Times bestselling author Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney.
Connect
Author: David Bradford, Ph.D.
Publisher: Currency
Published: 2021-02-09
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0593237102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA transformative guide to building more fulfilling relationships with colleagues, friends, partners, and family, based on the landmark Interpersonal Dynamics (“Touchy-Feely”) course at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business ONE OF BLOOMBERG’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • “Carole Robin and David Bradford are masters at helping people bring IQ and EQ together to satisfy both and be successful.”—Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater and author of Principles: Life and Work The ability to create strong relationships with others is crucial to living a full life and becoming more effective at work. Yet many of us find ourselves struggling to build solid personal and professional connections or unable to handle challenges that inevitably arise when we grow closer to others. When we find ourselves in an exceptional relationship—the kind of relationship in which we feel fully understood and supported for who we are—it can seem like magic. But the truth is that the process of building and sustaining these relationships can be described, learned, and applied. David Bradford and Carole Robin taught interpersonal skills to MBA candidates for a combined seventy-five years in their legendary Stanford Graduate School of Business course Interpersonal Dynamics (affectionately known to generations of students as “Touchy-Feely”) and have coached and consulted hundreds of executives for decades. In Connect, they show readers how to take their relationships from shallow to exceptional by cultivating authenticity, vulnerability, and honesty, while being willing to ask for and offer help, share a commitment to growth, and deal productively with conflict. Filled with relatable scenarios and research-backed insights, Connect is an important resource for anyone hoping to improve existing relationships and build new ones at any stage of life.
Hello Darkness, My Old Friend
Author: Sanford D. Greenberg
Publisher: Post Hill Press
Published: 2020-06-30
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1642934984
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt’s a bitterly cold February in 1961, and Sandy Greenberg lies in a hospital bed in Detroit, newly blind. A junior at Columbia University from a Jewish family that struggled to stay above the poverty line, Sandy had just started to see the world open up to him. Now, instead of his plans for a bright future—Harvard Law and politics—Sandy faces a new reality, one defined by a cane or companion dog, menial work, and a cautious path through life. But that’s not how this story ends. In the depth of his new darkness, Sandy faces a choice—play it “safe” by staying in his native Buffalo or return to Columbia to pursue his dreams. With the loving devotion of his girlfriend (and now wife) Sue and the selflessness of best friends Art Garfunkel and Jerry Speyer, Sandy endures unimaginable adversity while forging a life of exceptional achievement. From his time in the White House working for President Lyndon B. Johnson to his graduate studies at Harvard and Oxford under luminaries such as Archibald Cox, Sir Arthur Goodhart, and Samuel Huntington, and through the guidance of his invaluable mentor David Rockefeller, Sandy fills his life and the lives of those around him with a radiant light of philanthropy, entrepreneurship, art, and innovation.
Change4good
Author: Lauren Jawno
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2012-01-02
Total Pages: 411
ISBN-13: 1467876917
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFinally, a radically new, remarkably sane breakthrough program to achieve the lifelong body, fitness and happiness you deserve! No gimmicks, no fads, no calorie counting, no meal plans. The Change4Good program is a new way of thinking about food, life and yourself. Its based on science, its controlled by you, its flexible, simple and its definitely not torture. Use the Change4Good tools, tips and guidance to change the way you think about food. Whether its five pounds to lose or three hundred, the radically new, but remarkably sane, Change4Good program will help you gain control of your weight permanently. Eat delicious life building, brain-powering real foodand, in moderation, even your favorite treats. It works because youre not just looking at what you put into your mouth but what you put into your life. Join the hundreds of doctors, lawyers, corporate chieftains, dancers, athletes and stay at home moms and dads whom Lauren has coached to success. Developed by Canadas renowned wellness expert, Lauren Jawno, the Change4Good program will help you to stop torturing yourself with food and start living your most satisfying life. Lauren has accomplished in Change4Good what few nutritionists and/or personal trainers have: a portable, intelligent and compassionate guide to managing, not just your weight, but your overall wellness and lifestyle attitudes. That she has done so in a book that engages you at a personal level, unencumbered by calorie-counting, meal plans and hollow mantras, speaks volumes about the depth and breadth of her knowledge, and her passion toward truly helping others attain their wellness goals. This book is a must read for anyone looking for a refreshing alternative to the all-to-common sterile texts on weight and wellness management. Dr. Mansoor Mohammed B.Sc. (Hons.), PhD President and Founder of ManaGeneDx Inc., A consulting firm focused on Personalized Medicine and Diagnostics
