Conscious business owners and entrepreneurs must be highly skilled at selling their ideas, products and services. This book demystifies the sales process and shows that sharing our vision, expressing our mission and standing for what are possible are all acts of selling.
John DiLeo is the author of five other books about classic movies: And You Thought You Knew Classic Movies, 100 Great Film Performances You Should Remember—But Probably Don’t, Screen Savers: 40 Remarkable Movies Awaiting Rediscovery, Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors, and Screen Savers II: My Grab Bag of Classic Movies. His website is johndileo.com and his Twitter handle is @JOHNDiLEO.
As the twentieth century dawned and France entered an era of extraordinary labor activism and industrial competition, an insistently romantic vision of the Parisian garment worker was deployed by politicians, reformers, and artists to manage anxieties about economic and social change. Nostalgia about a certain kind of France was written onto the bodies of the capital's couture workers throughout French pop culture from the 1880s to the 1930s. And the midinettes-as these women were called- were written onto the geography of Paris itself, by way of festivals, monuments, historic preservation, and guide books. The idealized working Parisienne stood in for, at once, the superiority of French taste and craft, and the political (and sexual) subordination of French women and labour. But she was also the public face of more than 80,000 real working women whose demands for better labour conditions were inflected, distorted, and, in some cases, amplified by this ubiquitous Romantic type in the decades straddling World War I. Working Girls bridges cultural histories of the Parisian imaginary and histories of French labour, and puts them in raucous dialogue with one another: a letter by a nineteen-year-old seamstress, a speech by a government minister; a frothy Parisian guide by a bon vivant, the minutes of a union meeting; a bawdy café-concert song, a policy brief on garment working conditions.
Have you ever noticed that there are those people who shine so much that no one can help but think they are special?What is that magical energy that somehow lights them up from the inside? How do they harness that magic and use it to create the lives of their dreams - even when they don't realize they have it?And what happens when they lose their magic? Can they ever get it back?That's what happened to Karen Lorre.The Playboy Playmate and One Life to Live star had unknowingly let the universe guide her most of her life - until a dear ex-boyfriend killed himself, her father died, and she became embroiled in a lawsuit against a pedophilic youth minister.All this happened when Karen was newly married to the man of her dreams, an incredible, romantic, brilliant man.She went from being the happiest wife to being divorced, devastated, alone, missing her husband with all her heart, and unable to work, function well, or stay awake.She had devoted herself to her acting career and to her now ex-husband, but she had lost it all.Though she was in such despair, that small voice within urged her to find her way back to her own special magic, even when all she craved was oblivion.Karen invites you on an inspiring journey through adventures, extravagant experiences, insights, and chance meetings that reminded her to reconnect with who she really is, to tap into her special magic in a whole new way, and to cause that small voice within her to boom louder than anything else. Let her stories inspire you to reconnect with your own magic in a whole new way, too. Get ready for new adventures!
Nowadays, it is all too easy to feel overwhelmed, uneasy and often in need of essential self-care and enchantment. The Book of Witchy Wellbeing is a book for these times, offering tried and true spells, rituals, recipes and meditations to help get your life to the next level of wellness. Cerridwen Greenleaf shares easy-to-do practices informed by her decades of implementing the power of intention-setting in her life, from setting up your wellness altar to healing movements, affirmations and crystals, as well as healthy and nurturing recipes for magical teas and tinctures. We hear so much about self-care now, but soul-care is of equal importance. The Book of Witchy Wellbeing is replete with approaches to deepen your connection to spirituality that is essential to real happiness, a wisdom-filled life and total wellness.
Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical draws on exhaustive archival research to tell the story of how Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, and a host of directors, choreographers, producers, and performers -- among them Paul Robeson -- made and remade the most important musical in Broadway history.
Creating Value as a Senior Leader helps leaders retain their best employees, create value, and keep talent on their team. Shona Elliott led her organization to become a Top 100 Employer and within Creating Value as a Senior Leader, she teaches leaders how to retain their employees, increase employee engagement, and create high-performing teams that achieve their organization’s goals. In Create Value as a Senior Leader, leaders learn: Why their good employees leave and how to prevent it What they can do to keep their best employees The secret to maintaining great relationships with employees The easiest way to boost employee engagement How to align their employees with strategic and departmental goals How to motivate their employees to positively contribute to their organization’s success
An immersive in-world guide to all things magical in the Marvel Universe One of the most formidable and powerful items in the Marvel Universe, the sacred Book of the Vishanti contains an infinite number of potent spells, incantations, and lore from fantastic realms. Created thousands of years ago in the ancient city of Babylon to combat demons and those who wield dark magic, this tome has been passed down by the greatest sorcerers of the ages, each adding their own discoveries into its ever-expanding pages. Now in the possession of Doctor Strange, the Sorcerer Supreme and Earth’s foremost protector against mystical threats, the Book of the Vishanti acts as his first line of defense. The greatest source of magical knowledge in our dimension, the Book of the Vishanti is the ultimate collection of spells, history, and personal accounts recorded by practitioners over centuries, including notes from Doctor Strange himself. Featuring detailed inscriptions, mind-bending illustrations, and everything you need to know about the heroes, villains, artifacts, creatures, and worlds that make up the mystical and supernatural side of the Multiverse, this book is a must-have for all Marvel fans.