People Like Us
People Like Us

Author: Sayu Bhojwani

Publisher: The New Press

Published: 2018-10-16

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1620974150

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The inspiring story of political newcomers (sometimes also newcomers to America) who are knocking down built-in barriers to creating better government The system is rigged: America's political leadership remains overwhelmingly white, male, moneyed, and Christian. Even at the local and state levels, elected office is inaccessible to the people it aims to represent. But in People Like Us, political scientist Sayu Bhojwani shares the stories of a diverse and persevering range of local and state politicians from across the country who are challenging the status quo, winning against all odds, and leaving a path for others to follow in their wake. In Anaheim, California, a previously undocumented Mexican American challenges the high-powered interests of the Disney Corporation to win a city council seat. In the Midwest, a thirty-something Muslim Somali American unseats a forty-four-year incumbent in the Minnesota house of representatives. These are some of the foreign-born, lower-income, and of-color Americans who have successfully taken on leadership roles in elected office despite xenophobia, political gatekeeping, and personal financial concerns. In accessible prose, Bhojwani shines a light on the political, systemic, and cultural roadblocks that prevent government from effectively representing a rapidly changing America, and offers forward-thinking solutions on how to get rid of them. People Like Us serves as a road map for the burgeoning democracy that has been a long time in the making: inclusive, multiracial, and unstoppable.

How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less
How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less

Author: Nicholas Boothman

Publisher: Workman Publishing Company

Published: 2008-07-02

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0761148426

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Make instant, meaningful connections. For interviewing, selling, managing, pitching an idea, applying to college—or looking for a soulmate—the secret of success is based on connecting with other people. And you can do it in 90 seconds or less through Nicholas Boothman’s program of establishing face-to-face communication. A master of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Boothman teaches us the concept of synchrony—how to synchronize our attitudes, body language, and voice tone in a way that instantly and imperceptibly makes us irresistibly likable to another person. He explains the different between open and closed body language. The power of communicating with what he calls a Really Useful Attitude. How to be an active listener. And how to identify and read the three most important sensory preferences. Step by step, it shows how to make the very best of any relationship’s most critical moment—those first 90 seconds.

Like People
Like People

Author: Karel Rudolf Ehrnreich

Publisher: Rozenberg Publishers

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9036194717

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Annotation From an early age, an intuitive and strong conviction grew, that in many organizations the explicit and implicit qualities, capabilities and skills of people are seriously under-utilized. The cause and consequences are rooted in the absence of an explicit compassionate vision of man and his wide spectrum of variable and invariable existential needs, his large variety of related behavioral stimuli, and the multi-cultural keys that need to be addressed and activated. Apparent miracles but actually very human things can be achieved by eliminating some of the causes of this very real under-utilization phenomenon. Using case studies, the author describes the power of behavioralk stimuli to create and/or destroy success generating synergies in business organizations.

Like People In History
Like People In History

Author: Felice Picano

Publisher: Requeered Tales

Published: 2020-01-24

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 9781951092139

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Solid, cautious Roger Sansarc and flamboyant, mercurial Alistair Dodge are second cousins who become lifelong friends when they first meet as nine-year-old boys in 1954. Their lives constantly intersect at crucial moments in their personal histories as each discovers his own unique -- and uniquely gay -- identity. Their complex, tumultuous, and madcap relationship endures against 40 years of history and their involvement with the handsome model, poet, and decorated Vietnam vet Matt Loguidice, whom they both love. Picano chronicles and celebrates gay life and subculture over the last half of the twentieth century: from the legendary 1969 gathering at Woodstock to the legendary parties at Fire Island Pines in the 1970s, from Malibu Beach in its palmiest surfer days to San Francisco during its gayest era, from the cities and jungles of South Vietnam during the war to Manhattan's Greenwich Village and Upper East Side during the 1990s AIDS war. In a book that could have been written only by one who lived it and survived to tell, Picano weaves a powerful saga of four decades in the lives of two men and their lovers, relatives, friends, and enemies. Tragic, comic, sexy, and romantic, filled with varied and colorful characters, Like People in History is both extraordinarily moving and supremely entertaining. First published to acclaim in 1995, winner of the Ferro-Grumley Award for Best Novel, Gay Times Best Novel of the Year and Finalist for Lambda Literary Award Best Gay Fiction, this 25th Anniversary edition for 2020 features a new foreword by Richard Bugs Burnett and an afterword by the author.

Like People You See in a Dream
Like People You See in a Dream

Author: Edward L. Schieffelin

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9780804718998

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This book is at once a detailed ethnographic and historical analysis of one of the final modern-day experiences of first-culture contact, a classic example of historical geography, and an extraordinary tale of exploration, imperialist arrogance, blood-shed, suffering, courage, and near disaster. By the 1930's, the interior of the island of New Guinea, protected from outside penetration over the centuries by its rugged mountains and unruly rivers, remained one of the few places outsiders had never seen. In early January of 1935, the Papuan colonial administration dispatched patrol officers including 40 Papuan carriers and police, to explore the vast unknown country between the Strickland and Purari rivers. The expedition moved inland along the river systems by steam launch and canoe until, in mid-February, they abandoned their boats and proceeded on foot through the tropical forest and into the mountains. Along the way, the party encountered hitherto unsuspected populations - peoples of six tribes, numbering in the tens of thousands - who had never before seen white men and who were still using Stone Age tools.

Read People Like a Book: How to Analyze, Understand, and Predict People’s Emotions, Thoughts, Intentions, and Behaviors
Read People Like a Book: How to Analyze, Understand, and Predict People’s Emotions, Thoughts, Intentions, and Behaviors

Author: Patrick King

Publisher: PKCS Media

Published: 2020-12-11

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13:

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Speed read people, decipher body language, detect lies, and understand human nature. Is it possible to analyze people without them saying a word? Yes, it is. Learn how to become a “mind reader” and forge deep connections. How to get inside people’s heads without them knowing. Read People Like a Book isn’t a normal book on body language of facial expressions. Yes, it includes all of those things, as well as new techniques on how to truly detect lies in your everyday life, but this book is more about understanding human psychology and nature. We are who we are because of our experiences and pasts, and this guides our habits and behaviors more than anything else. Parts of this book read like the most interesting and applicable psychology textbook you’ve ever read. Take a look inside yourself and others! Understand the subtle signals that you are sending out and increase your emotional intelligence. Patrick King is an internationally bestselling author and social skills coach. His writing draws of a variety of sources, from scientific research, academic experience, coaching, and real life experience. Learn the keys to influencing and persuading others. •What people’s limbs can tell us about their emotions. •Why lie detecting isn’t so reliable when ignoring context. •Diagnosing personality as a means to understanding motivation. •Deducing the most with the least amount of information. •Exactly the kinds of eye contact to use and avoid Find shortcuts to connect quickly and deeply with strangers. The art of reading and analyzing people is truly the art of understanding human nature. Consider it like a cheat code that will allow you to see through people’s actions and words. Decode people’s thoughts and intentions, and you can go in any direction you want with them.

Stuff White People Like
Stuff White People Like

Author: Christian Lander

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2008-08-06

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1588368378

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They love nothing better than sipping free-trade gourmet coffee, leafing through the Sunday New York Times, and listening to David Sedaris on NPR (ideally all at the same time). Apple products, indie music, food co-ops, and vintage T-shirts make them weak in the knees. They believe they’re unique, yet somehow they’re all exactly the same, talking about how they “get” Sarah Silverman’s “subversive” comedy and Wes Anderson’s “droll” films. They’re also down with diversity and up on all the best microbrews, breakfast spots, foreign cinema, and authentic sushi. They’re organic, ironic, and do not own TVs. You know who they are: They’re white people. And they’re here, and you’re gonna have to deal. Fortunately, here’s a book that investigates, explains, and offers advice for finding social success with the Caucasian persuasion. So kick back on your IKEA couch and lose yourself in the ultimate guide to the unbearable whiteness of being. Praise for STUFF WHITE PEOPLE LIKE: “The best of a hilarious Web site: an uncannily accurate catalog of dead-on predilections. The Criterion Collection of classic films? Haircuts with bangs? Expensive fruit juice? ‘Blonde on Blonde’ on the iPod? The author knows who reads The New Yorker and who wears plaid.” –Janet Maslin’s summer picks, CBS.com “The author of "Stuff White People Like" skewers the sacred cows of lefty Caucasian culture, from the Prius to David Sedaris. . . . It gently mocks the habits and pretensions of urbane, educated, left-leaning whites, skewering their passion for Barack Obama and public transportation (as long as it's not a bus), their idle threats to move to Canada, and joy in playing children's games as adults. Kickball, anyone?” –Salon.com “A handy reference guide with which you can check just how white you are. Hint: If you like only documentaries and think your child is gifted, you glow in the dark, buddy.” –NY Daily News

How to Make People Like You
How to Make People Like You

Author: Christopher Kingler

Publisher:

Published:

Total Pages: 87

ISBN-13:

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Are you wondering how you can improve your relationships with your friends and family? Are you curious about how to get or keep your dream job? Would you like to quickly connect with whoever you want without making a bad impression? It only takes a tenth of a second, a little more than a blink of an eye, to give the first impression and a good seven seconds to create a difficult idea of ​​the person in front of us. It is all the fault of our brain; the outcome of brain functioning is now bombarded by the media and that convinces people that they are right about their judgment of a person from the first impression! This manual has all the tools you need to turn strangers into friends, whether you're on a sales call, a first date, or a job interview. As a scholar and writer of psychology journals and books, Christopher Kingler has developed dynamic and innovative strategies for the synchronisation of tone of voice, attitude and body language in a way that instantly and imperceptibly makes us irresistibly sympathetic to another person. Unfortunately, in everyday life, the risk of making a bad impression is always just around the corner. After all, the choices other people make about you determine your health, wealth and happiness. Decades of research show that people choose who they want. They vote for them, buy from them, marry them and spend precious time with them. The good news is that you can arm yourself to win the battles of life; weapons such as the understanding people's psychological drives. This manual is divided into three parts to facilitate understanding: The first part - Understanding people's psychological drives. - How social status can affect the behaviour of people towards you. - How to blow up your sympathy level. - Overcoming the obstacles and psychological barriers that block you. The second part - Build a solid and lasting self-image. - How to be more engaging and charismatic. - Discover influencing techniques to make a killer first impression. The third part - Countless communication techniques and exercises. - Body language to better express yourself and to decipher who is in front of you. - Techniques to seduce and bring anyone to your side. - Select the best people to keep by your side. - Turn enemies into friends. And much more! Finally, you will learn to adapt, conquer people and handle virtually any social situation. When you finish reading this book, which is actually an intensive course, the "diploma" you will receive will not be a scroll with your name written on it, but an invaluable set of knowledge and skills that will allow you to influence people in all spheres of your life, regardless of the situation. What are you waiting for? Become the best version of yourself and grab your copy!

People Like Ourselves
People Like Ourselves

Author: Jacqueline Noll Zimmerman

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2003-09-29

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1417503351

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The stigmatization of mental illness in film has been well documented in literature. Little has been written, however, about the ability of movies to portray mental illness sympathetically and accurately. People Like Ourselves: Portrayals of Mental Illness in the Movies fills that void with a close look at mental illness in more than seventy American movies, beginning with classics such as The Snake Pit and Now, Voyager and including such contemporary successes as A Beautiful Mind and As Good as It Gets. Films by legendary directors Billy Wilder, William Wyler, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Oliver Stone, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and John Cassavetes are included. Through the examination of universal themes relating to one's self and society, the denial of reality, the role of women, creativity, war, and violence, Zimmerman argues that these ground-breaking films defy stereotypes, presenting sympathetic portraits of people who are mentally ill, and advance the movie-going public's understanding of mental illness, while providing insight into its causes, diagnosis, and treatment. More importantly, they portray mentally ill people as ordinary people with conflicts and desires common to everyone. Like the motion pictures it revisits, this fascinating book offers insight, entertainment, and a sense of understanding.

God Don't Like Fake People
God Don't Like Fake People

Author: The Seed of Solomon

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2008-06-06

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 1467839205

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Are you tired of dealing with fake people? Does it seem like every time you put trust in your family and friends they come up short and backstab you? Does it seem like every time you try to get in a relationship you later find out that they are the opposite of what you thought they were when you first met them? Does it seems like you are walking in place and everybody that is in your circle doesnt have you in their best interest and is selfishly trying to milk and drain you. If you can relate to all or some of those situations then you are dealing with fake people. This book entitled God dont like fake people is a spiritual Guide to better relationships with people and God. This is a Bible based book that shines the light on many blind spots in your soul that may be causing you to keep experiencing regretful and disappointing situations in life. This small book is like a heavenly vitamin that will help replenish your mental and spiritual cells. This book is the rebirth of an ancient style of writing. Therefore after reading this nontraditional book you will no longer look at the world the same. This book is not like any other book that you have read in you life. Therefore you must read this legendary book with an open heart and mind as if you were a child. The seed of Solomon A.K.A Allan Williams is an anointed student of God that has dedicated his life to inspire people to seek God and the truth. Its better to be criticized by a wise person than to be praised by a fool. - Ecclesiastes 7:5 We dont see things as they are. We see them as we are. - Anis Nin If you want what you cant have, you will never have what you want - Allan Williams