Thrival from Ordinary to Extraordinary

Thrival from Ordinary to Extraordinary

Author: Mark Mandela

Publisher: eBookIt.com

Published: 2011-04-23

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13: 1456602551

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Do you dream of leaving your 9-to-5 job and never returning? Do you desire to travel the country and make new friends? Is freedom of time, mobility, and money important to you? If you answered yes to any of those questions, Thrival from Ordinary to Extraordinary is a must-read. Using personal experience, Mandela elucidates how to achieve those dreams and desires. You will learn to: - Realize your possibilities. - Build a team. - Develop lasting relationships. - Identify key people to develop into leaders. - Inspire others. - Become extraordinary. If surviving is your goal, this book is not for you. If you desire to reach the next level, to go from being ordinary to extraordinary, this book is teeming with clues that enable you to reach the next level and beyond. Your potential is greater than surviving; it is time to thrive. Learn step-by-step how to go from ordinary to extraordinary; it is your time to excel!


The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Things Done

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Things Done

Author: Jeff Davidson MBA, CMC

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2005-12-06

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1440650543

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The secret to getting more checks on that to–do–list . . . As companies and workers are being pressured to do more for less, new ways of becoming more time-productive are essential. The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Getting Things Done gives readers the tools they need to increase personal productivity in the workplace, including how to visualize short- and long-term goals, tear down the walls of procrastination, manage energy instead of time, streamline work space, run productive meetings, work effectively with others, and more. • Over the past 10 years, American productivity has risen 46% while hours worked have remained flat (Bureau of Labor Statistics) • Books on personal productivity sell very well • Author’s related book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Managing Your Time, is phenomenally successful • Author is a nationally recognized speaker


The Third Chapter

The Third Chapter

Author: Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books

Published: 2009-01-06

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1429980885

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In the twenty-first century, a developmental phase of life is emerging as significant and distinct, capturing our interest, engaging our curiosity, and expanding our understanding of human potential and development. Demographers talk about this new chapter in life as characterized by people—between fifty and seventy-five—who are considered "neither young nor old." In our "third chapters" we are beginning to redefine our views about the casualties and opportunities of aging; we are challenging cultural definitions of strength, maturity, power, and sexiness. This is a chapter in life when the traditional norms, rules, and rituals of our careers seem less encompassing and restrictive; when many women and men seem to be embracing new challenges and searching for greater meaning in life. In The Third Chapter, the renowned sociologist Dr. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot offers a strong counterpoint to the murky ambivalence that shrouds our clear view of people in their third chapters. She challenges the still prevailing and anachronistic images of aging by documenting and revealing the ways in which the years between fifty and seventy-five may, in fact, be the most transformative and generative time in our lives, tracing the ways in which wisdom, experience, and new learning inspire individual growth and cultural transformation. The women and men whose voices fill the pages of The Third Chapter tell passionate and poignant stories of risk and vulnerability, failure and resilience, challenge and mastery, experimentation and improvisation, and insight and new learning.


The Stuff of Stars

The Stuff of Stars

Author: Marion Dane Bauer

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2020-10-06

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 1536220655

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In an astonishing unfurling of our universe, Newbery Honor winner Marion Dane Bauer and Caldecott Honor winner Ekua Holmes celebrate the birth of every child. Before the universe was formed, before time and space existed, there was . . . nothing. But then . . . BANG! Stars caught fire and burned so long that they exploded, flinging stardust everywhere. And the ash of those stars turned into planets. Into our Earth. And into us. In a poetic text, Marion Dane Bauer takes readers from the trillionth of a second when our universe was born to the singularities that became each one of us, while vivid illustrations by Ekua Holmes capture the void before the Big Bang and the ensuing life that burst across galaxies. A seamless blend of science and art, this picture book reveals the composition of our world and beyond — and how we are all the stuff of stars.


Eichmann in Jerusalem

Eichmann in Jerusalem

Author: Hannah Arendt

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2006-09-22

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1101007168

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The controversial journalistic analysis of the mentality that fostered the Holocaust, from the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker in 1963. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account. A major journalistic triumph by an intellectual of singular influence, Eichmann in Jerusalem is as shocking as it is informative—an unflinching look at one of the most unsettling (and unsettled) issues of the twentieth century.


Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets

Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets

Author: Kwame Alexander

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2021-01-26

Total Pages: 59

ISBN-13: 1536221694

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A Newbery Medalist and a Caldecott Honoree offer a glorious, lyrical ode to poets who have sparked a sense of wonder. Out of gratitude for the poet’s art form, Newbery Award–winning author and poet Kwame Alexander, along with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth, present original poems that pay homage to twenty famed poets who have made the authors’ hearts sing and their minds wonder. Stunning mixed-media images by Ekua Holmes, winner of a Caldecott Honor and a John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award, complete the celebration and invite the reader to listen, wonder, and perhaps even pick up a pen.


What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?

What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?

Author: Chris Barton

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2018-09-25

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 1481465627

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“When Barbara Jordan talked, we listened.” —Former President of the United States, Bill Clinton Congresswoman Barbara Jordan had a big, bold, confident voice—and she knew how to use it! Learn all about her amazing career in this illuminating and inspiring picture book biography of the lawyer, educator, politician, and civil rights leader. Even as a child growing up in the Fifth Ward of Houston, Texas, Barbara Jordan stood out for her big, bold, booming, crisp, clear, confident voice. It was a voice that made people sit up, stand up, and take notice. So what do you do with a voice like that? Barbara took her voice to places few African American women had been in the 1960s: first law school, then the Texas state senate, then up to the United States congress. Throughout her career, she persevered through adversity to give voice to the voiceless and to fight for civil rights, equality, and justice. New York Times bestselling author Chris Barton and Caldecott Honoree Ekua Holmes deliver a remarkable picture book biography about a woman whose struggles and mission continue to inspire today.


The 500 Year Delta

The 500 Year Delta

Author: Jim Taylor

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1998-06-03

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0887309119

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In the tradition of Alvin Toffler's Future Shock and John Naisbitt's Megatrends, The 500-Year Delta offers an enthralling glimpse of what businesses and individuals should expect as the five-hundred-year-old "Age of Reason" segues into the "Age of Possibility." According to visionary futurists Jim Taylor and Watts Wacker, we stand at not one but several crossroads-marked points of discontinuity between past and present. These include: The shift from reason-based to chaos-based logic The splintering of social, political, and economic organization The collapse of producer-controlled consumer markets For a world caught in this swirling intersection of change, Jim Taylor and Watts Wacker provide tested strategies to help companies and individuals reset their course toward an unpredictable future, offering new models to accommodate the increasing chaos of everyday life. Describing our present point of transformation as a "triple witching hour," the authors chart a future course that is at once bracing, forbidding, joyous, and ultimately redemptive.


Readings in the Philosophy of Technology

Readings in the Philosophy of Technology

Author: David M. Kaplan

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2009-10-16

Total Pages: 602

ISBN-13: 074256536X

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Ideal for professors who want to provide a comprehensive set of the most important readings in the philosophy of technology, from foundational to the cutting edge, this book introduces students to the various ways in which societies, technologies, and environments shape one another. The readings examine the nature of technology as well as the effects of technologies upon human knowledge, activities, societies, and environments. Students will learn to appreciate the ways that philosophy informs our understanding of technology, and to see how technology relates to ethics, politics, nature, human nature, computers, science, food, and animals.