A Guide for Grown-ups

A Guide for Grown-ups

Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2002-05-01

Total Pages: 83

ISBN-13: 0547540124

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A delightful collection of inspiring quotations from the mind of Antoine de Saint- Exupéry, author of The Little Prince. “One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.” For more than sixty years, this insight from The Little Prince has been quoted in more than 130 languages by fans around the world. Now, for the first time, quotations from the collected works and letters of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry are presented in a charming gift edition. Six chapters—“Happiness,” “Friendship,” “Responsibility,” “Fortitude,” “Love,” and “What Is Essential”—offer inspirational and thought-provoking words about the subjects held most dear by the author. A perfect gift for graduates—or for anyone who wants gentle guidance.


Saint-exupery

Saint-exupery

Author: Stacy Schiff

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2011-07-27

Total Pages: 887

ISBN-13: 0307798399

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From a master biographer, the life story of the daring French aviator who became one of the twentieth century's most beloved authors Antoine de Saint-Exupéry disappeared at age forty-four during a reconnaissance flight over southern France. At the time he was best known for a career of daring flights over the Sahara, the Pyrenees, and Patagonia and for his contributions to the science of aviation. But the solitary hours he spent above the earth in open cockpit airplanes gave birth to a more famous legacy, a series of enchanting, autobiographical novels and the classic story The Little Prince, still the most translated book in the French language. An impoverished aristocrat from one of France's oldest families, Saint-Exupéry moved at age twenty-seven to the western Sahara Desert, to live alone in a plank shack and manage the way station for the Aéropostale, the French mail service. His careers as a novelist and an aviator were born here, and his life once he returned to Europe was defined--with brilliant and catastrophic results--by the sense of isolated fascination and curiosity he developed in the desert. In this definitive biography, Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff reveals an intrepid and unconventional life that rivals the best adventure stories.


Wartime Writings 1939-1944

Wartime Writings 1939-1944

Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Publisher: Mariner Books

Published: 2002-11-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780156027533

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A reconnaissance pilot for France during World War II, Antoine de Saint-Exupery spent many dangerous days in the air above enemy occupied territory. "Wartime Writings" recounts some of his aviation exploits.


Climate Uncertainty and Risk

Climate Uncertainty and Risk

Author: Judith Curry

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2023-06-06

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1785278185

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World leaders have made a forceful statement that climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity in the 21st century. However, little progress has been made in implementing policies to address climate change. In Climate Uncertainty and Risk, eminent climate scientist Judith Curry shows how we can break this gridlock. This book helps us rethink the climate change problem, the risks we are facing and how we can respond to these challenges. Understanding the deep uncertainty surrounding the climate change problem helps us to better assess the risks. This book shows how uncertainty and disagreement can be part of the decision-making process. It provides a road map for formulating pragmatic solutions. Climate Uncertainty and Risk is essential reading for those concerned about the environment, professionals dealing with climate change and our national leaders.


Discovering the Hidden Wisdom of The Little Prince

Discovering the Hidden Wisdom of The Little Prince

Author: Pierre Lassus

Publisher: Arcade

Published: 2017-08-08

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781628726817

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Finally, one of the most of the most beloved books every published—explained. The Little Prince is revered around the world. Two hundred million copies have been sold in 270 languages; it is the fourth best-selling book of all time. Part of its allure is that is seems incredibly wise but so simple it is read as a work for children. Yet its meaning is elusive, and its place amid the writings of an adventurer and war hero acclaimed for dramatic bestsellers like Night Flight and Flight to Arras is mysterious. In this elegant, carefully argued book, Pierre Lassus reexamines the story of The Little Prince against the facts of Saint-Exupéry's own extraordinary life, from his cherished but fatherless childhood in aristocratic poverty to his career as a pioneering pilot. His plane had broken down in the desert before. He had adopted a fox, when posted at the Spanish fort of Cape Juby, in southern Morocco. He had known the world of business before becoming pilot; he had also known unrequited love. Like his little protagonist's, his body was never found after his plane disappeared in World War II. He was working on his spiritual autobiography when he died, and there too, Lassus finds resonances and keys to the understated spirituality of his last great book.


Tantric Impact

Tantric Impact

Author: Toine Knipping

Publisher: Balboa Press

Published: 2018-02-28

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 1504398912

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What good is financial success if it doesnt lead to fulfillment, satsifaction, and happiness? Toine Knipping, the co-founder and CEO of Amicorp, an independent global provider of company secretarial and fiduciary services, tackles that question head-on in this book. Drawing on wisdom from Tantric masters, who said that the fabric of life can provide true and everlasting fulfillment only when all the threads are woven according to the pattern designated by nature, he reveals how to: Control your wealth and use it well. Encourage and empower employees to give back. Embrace high ethical standards and community involvement. Knipping also describes charitable projects, impact investments, and social enterprises drawn from his personal experience to provide context and show the elements involved in any one investment. From setting up an outsourcing business in India, to starting a social enterprise in South Africa to protect endangered species, to establishing a daycare center in Curacao, youll be inspired to give back with the lessons in Tantric Impact.


Rethinking Public Strategy

Rethinking Public Strategy

Author: Sean Lusk

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2014-07-23

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1350311928

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Strategy is vital to effective and efficient public service delivery as well as successful governance and leadership. This new text provides a concise yet systematic overview of the achievements, downfalls and complexities of public strategy in today's globalized and often market-driven world. It describes the place of strategy in civic societies whose citizens are more interconnected and vocal than ever. It shows that successful strategic planning goes well beyond problem-solving to developing adaptable plans that can evolve as requirements and circumstances change. And it explains why muddling through simply won't work. Emphasizing the importance of applying a variety of techniques to the process of strategy-creation, Rethinking Public Strategy reassesses the key factors that can deliver significant improvements in public services and build public value. It looks at why public strategy is distinctive, as well as the principles it has in common with the corporate domain. This text includes numerous case studies from around the globe – from South Africa to Singapore, the USA to Germany, and from China to the Czech Republic – that ground the exposition in real experience. Based on state-of-the-art research by two expert practitioners in the field, it offers an essential guide to the art of strategy in the contemporary public sector, and encourages readers to evaluate critically the various approaches to strategy.