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The World Beyond Your Head
In his bestselling book Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford explored the ethical and practical importance of manual competence, as expressed through mastery of our physical environment. In his brilliant follow-up, The World Beyond Your Head, Crawford investigates the challenge of mastering one's own mind.
We often complain about our fractured mental lives and feel beset by outside forces that destroy our focus and disrupt our peace of mind. Any defense against this, Crawford argues, requires that we reckon with the way attention sculpts the self.
Crawford investigates the intense focus of ice hockey players and short-order chefs, the quasi-autistic behavior of gambling addicts, the familiar hassles of daily life, and the deep, slow craft of building pipe organs. He shows that our current crisis of attention is only superficially the result of digital technology, and becomes more comprehensible when understood as the coming to fruition of certain assumptions at the root of Western culture that are profoundly at odds with human nature.
The World Beyond Your Head makes sense of an astonishing array of common experience, from the frustrations of airport security to the rise of the hipster. With implications for the way we raise our children, the design of public spaces, and democracy itself, this is a book of urgent relevance to contemporary life.
ISBN:2147483647
Author:Matthew B. Crawford
The Power of a Praying Teen by Stormi...
Brief Summary
Bestselling author Stormie Omartian raised teenagers to adulthood, and her mother's heart for this age group (14- to 18-year-olds) gives her the perfect foundation for a book on prayer specifically targeting this exciting and challenging time of life.
Along with Scripture verses and true stories of teens in action, The Power of a Praying(R) Teenaddresses key issues young people face, including
- purity
- peer pressure
- insecurity
- body/self-image
- friendships
How to Get what You Want in the Workp...
In this book, John Gray turns his successful Mars and Venus healing advice towards work and success in modern times - from how to create and maintain positive relationships at work, how to maximize your potential, realize your creativity and more.
With insightful advice for men and women, he stresses the need to focus on what you love and what is important in life in order to create lasting success.
In 'How to Get What you Want in the Workplace', John Gray provides the ultimate guide for real and lasting success, and happiness at work.
ISBN:2147483647
Author:John Gray
Wealth and Power
From two of today's foremost experts on China, a thought-provoking new history that helps us understand China's future by looking at its rise over the last 150 years.Wealth and Power is a sweeping account of the key, iconic intellectual figures and political leaders of China since the mid-1800s. By examining what they thought and what they did through lively and absorbing portraits, Schell and Delury chart how China made its tortured transformation from a weak, humiliated country under foreign assault to its astonishing rise in the early 21st century. In so doing, they provide us with a deeper and richer understanding of China's present success story.
ISBN:2147483647
Author:Orville Schell, John Delury
The Power Of Positive Thinking In Bus...
Would you like to have the confidence and self-belief to get ahead at work?We are all born positive thinkers but our positive traits can be clouded over by the stresses and strains of daily life. Written in cooperation with the (Norman Vincent) Peale Center, The Power of Positive Thinking in Business will help you overcome negative attitudes, such as fear and lack of confidence, and replace them with the traits of a positive thinker: optimism, determination, patience and focus.Positivity also has a wider role to play: in fast-changing times and the uncertain economic climate it is important to have positivity in the workplace to rise to the challenges ahead. This book will show you how you can deal more effectively with tough situations and difficult people, and dramatically improve your performance and confidence at work.So reap the benefits of positive thinking in your professional life and say goodbye to negativity for good.
ISBN:2147483647
Author:Scott Ventrella
The 8th Chakra
The 7 chakras of the human personality are familiar to anyone working with healing or spiritual awareness. But that consciousness is essentially incomplete. It is the universal heart of the 8th chakra that can offer us the missing key to remember who we truly are.In this astounding book, scientist, healer, and mystic Jude Currivan, Ph.D., reveals a revolutionary new perception of the cosmos, reconciling leading-edge science with Spirit and the perennial wisdom of all ages into a universal model of consciousness. She also explains how the energies of the 8th chakra offer us a path to spiritual mastery.Both accessible and profound, this groundbreaking work is a practical and empowering guide to our personal and collective spiritual wholeness and shows us how we can:• Understand and integrate the principles of cosmic consciousness• Reconcile science and Spirit to show not only how the physical world is as it is, but why• Directly access and embody newly available cosmic energies and higher levels of transpersonal awareness• Manifest our soul purpose on Earth
ISBN:2147483647
Author:Jude Currivan
The Ten Faces of Innovation
A brilliant guide to fostering creativity and business innovation, based on the author's experience as the MD of IDEO - the world-famous design firm that has developed hundreds of innovative products, including the Palm Pilot.
When it comes to work, could you be an experience architect? Or a storyteller, caregiver or a cross-pollinator? These are just four of the characters developed by IDEO and presented in The Ten Faces of Innovation that any individual can adopt to innovate in their business lives. Individuals can use these different characters in different situations to create a broader range of solutions to business problems: at the start of the creative process you might be the "anthropologist", going into the field to see how customers use and respond to products; later, if there are obstacles, you might be the hurdler, who overcomes obstacles in the way to the finished product.
The book explains with examples from business how adopting these characters can beat naysayers who stifle innovation.
ISBN:2147483647
Author:Tom Kelley, Jonathan Littman
Lies Women Believe by Nancy Leigh DeM...
Counter the lies that keep you from abundant living.Satan is the master deceiver and his lies are endless. And the lies Christian women believe are at the root of most of their struggles. "Many women live under a cloud of personal guilt and condemnation," says Nancy Leigh DeMoss.
"Many are in bondage to their past. Others are gripped by fear of rejection and a longing for approval. Still others are emotional prisoners." In best selling Lies Women Believe, Nancy exposes those areas of deception most commonly believed by Christian women—lies about God, sin, priorities, marriage and family, emotions, and more.
She then sheds light on how we can be delivered from bondage and set free to walk in God's grace, forgiveness, and abundant life. Nancy offers the most effective weapon to counter and overcome Satan's deceptions: God's truth!
The Body Language of Love
Learn the body language that will boost your confidence when it comes to relationships:
- understanding the opposite sex- the art of flirtation and courtship signals - the importance of eye contact - does body language mean the same thing for him and for her?
From first impressions to long-term relationships, "The Body Language of Love" will help you to identify and correct the body language which could be letting you down.
ISBN:2147483647
Author:Allan Pease, Barbara Pease
The Challenge for Africa by Wangari M...
Brief Summary
Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and founder of the Green Belt Movement, offers a refreshingly unique perspective on the challenges facing Africa, even as she calls for a moral revolution among Africans themselves, who, she argues, are culturally deracinated, adrift between worlds.The troubles of Africa today are severe and wide-ranging. Yet what we see of them in the media, more often than not, are tableaux vivantes connoting poverty, dependence, and desperation.
Wangari Maathai presents a different vision, informed by her three decades as an environmental activist and campaigner for democracy.
She illuminates the complex and dynamic nature of the continent, and offers "hardheaded hope” and "realistic options” for change and improvement. With clarity of expression, Maathai analyzes the most egregious "bottlenecks to development in Africa,” occurring at the international, national, and individual levels–cultural upheaval and enduring poverty among them–and deftly describes what Africans can and need to do for themselves, stressing all the while responsibility and accountability.Impassioned and empathetic, The Challenge for Africa is a book of immense importance.
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ISBN:9780307390288
Author:Wangari Maathai
Lean In for Graduates
Expanded and updated exclusively for graduates just entering the workforce, this extraordinary edition of "Lean In "includes a letter to graduates from Sheryl Sandberg and six additional chapters from experts offering advice on finding and getting the most out of a first job; resume writing; best interviewing practices; negotiating your salary; listening to your inner voice; owning who you are; and leaning in for millennial men.
In 2013, Sheryl Sandberg's "Lean In" became a massive cultural phenomenon and its title became an instant catchphrase for empowering women. The book soared to the top of best-seller lists both nationally and internationally, igniting global conversations about women and ambition. Sandberg packed theaters, dominated op-ed pages, appeared on every major television show and on the cover of "Time "magazine, and sparked ferocious debate about women and leadership. Now, this enhanced edition provides the entire text of the original book updated with more recent statistics and features a passionate letter from Sandberg encouraging graduates to find and commit to work they love. A combination of inspiration and practical advice, this new edition will speak directly to graduates and, like the original, will change lives.
New Material for the Graduate Edition: - A Letter to Graduates from Sheryl Sandberg- Find Your First Job, by Mindy Levy (Levy has more than twenty years of experience in all phases of organizational management and holds degrees from Wharton and Penn) - Negotiate Your Salary, by Kim Keating (Keating is the founder and managing director of Keating Advisors)- Man Up: Millennial Men and Equality, by Kunal Modi (Modi is a consultant at McKinsey & Company and a recent graduate of Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School)- Leaning In Together, by Rachel Thomas (Thomas is the president of Lean In)- Own Who You Are, by Mellody Hobson (Hobson is the president of Ariel Investments)
The Tongue -A Creative Force
