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The Dark Side of Samuel Pepys: Society's First Sex Offender
Par Geoffrey Pimm. 2018
This historical biography reveals how the famous diarist of Restoration England used his professional position to act as a sexual…
predator. Samuel Pepys is popularly known as the founder of the modern navy, a member of the Royal Society and, most of all, as a unique and frank diarist. Less well known is that he was a serial sexual offender by modern standards; a voyeur, a groper, and a rapist. Set against the London society of Charles II&’s restoration, and extensively using Pepys&’ own words, this book concerns his numerous extramarital affairs. It demonstrates how he used his position of power and influence to advance the careers of his subordinates—in return for the sexual favors of their wives. With his own descriptions, translated from the strange mix of languages and the seventeenth-century shorthand he used to camouflage the content, the reader witnesses in graphic detail how Pepys set about achieving his lascivious objectives – on occasion resorting to physical force where persuasion or bribery failed. Whether she be wife, daughter, mother, or humble maidservant, no woman was safe from his rapacious sexual appetite.Saddled: How a Spirited Horse Reined Me In and Set Me Free
Par Susan Richards. 2010
The New York Times bestselling author of Chosen by a Horse explains how caring for an animal taught her to…
care for herself. One day, at the age of thirty-one, Susan Richards realized that she was an alcoholic. She wrote it down in her journal, struck by the fact that it had taken nine years of waking up hung-over to name her illness. What had changed? Susan had a new horse, a spirited Morgan named Georgia, and, as she says: &“It had something to do with Georgia. It had something to do with making a commitment as enormous as caring for a horse that might live as my companion for the next forty years. It had something to do with love.&” Every day begins with a morning ride. Every day Susan lives a little more and thinks about her mistakes a little less. Every day she learns a little more from Georgia, the kind of horse who doesn&’t go in for indecision, who doesn&’t apologize for her opinions, and who isn&’t afraid to be herself. In Georgia, Susan finds something to draw her back to herself, but also something to keep her steady and focused, to teach her about stepping carefully in unknown territory, to help her learn again about balance. This is a memoir about the power of animals to carry us through the toughest times of our lives—about the importance of constancy, the beauty of quiet, steadfast love, the way loving a good (and sometimes bad!) animal can keep you going. It&’s a wonderful story for Susan&’s (and Georgia&’s) fans, and for anyone who has ever loved an animal enough to keep on living.Be the Unicorn: 12 Data-Driven Habits that Separate the Best Leaders from the Rest
Par William Vanderbloemen. 2023
Want to stand out from the crowd? We have studied 30,000 top leaders and have discovered the 12 habits they…
share that make them as rare as a unicorn. Learn these habits, and you&’ll be one of the best at whatever you do!How do I stand out? How do I become irreplaceable? With a crowded workforce, an unstable job landscape, and the rise of AI, these questions are the ones that everyone either is or should be asking.William Vanderbloemen has asked these questions over the past 15 years while running one of the world&’s top executive search firms. Through extensive research of over 30,000 top leaders and proprietary data, Vanderbloemen has identified the 12 habits that the best of the best have in common. Traits such as authenticity, responsiveness, agility, and the ability to problem solve, among others.Each habit includes information on What We Know (the hard data behind why the habit is so transformative), What We&’ve Seen (first-hand accounts by high-achieving professionals on how they live the habit), and What We Do (simple ways to build this habit into your daily routine). Be the Unicorn will help you:Discover the top twelve soft skills the most successful leaders, the top 1%, have. Understand how to develop these soft skills in your own life for better job success. Learn how to apply soft skills to interpersonal relationships outside of work. Understand how these soft skills can be applied in different work environments and job fields, especially with the rise of AI technology.Back from the Edge: Mental Health and Addiction in Sport
Par Luke Sutton. 2020
“One of the most open and honest and thought-provoking books on the effect addiction and alcohol can have on the…
career and life of a county cricketer.” —Deep Extra CoverThe truth is that professional sports are a breeding ground for addictive behavior.Luke Sutton is a business owner and successful agent to sporting stars such as James Taylor, Nile Wilson and Sam Quek, but his life didn’t always look so positive.Back from the Edge reveals the huge ups and major downs that a professional career in sports can bring—and the mental health difficulties that can plague a sportsperson along the way. Luke knows this more than most. Brutally, but refreshingly honest, this no-frills autobiography of the former professional cricketer describes in detail the moment he hit rock bottom, how he got there, his roller coaster journey through rehab, and the important lessons he’s learned since.Throughout the book, Luke remains candid and reveals how his addictions affected his personal life, from his friends to family to his children. Back from the Edge is heart-wrenching. It’s also thoroughly genuine, funny and utterly inspirational, and has allowed the former cricketer to speak about his mental health and to raise awareness of addiction in sports. Now a sports agent, he is perfectly placed to spot the warning signs in young stars, and to support them before they spiral into the same type of experiences he faced.“A raw account of his alcoholism and the process of rebuilding his life.” —The Telegraph“One of the most honest cricket books ever written.” —ESPNcricinfoDigital, Diverse & Divided: How to Talk to Racists, Compete with Robots, and Overcome Polarization
Par David Livermore. 2022
In a world of increasing polarization, Digital, Diverse & Divided shows us how to use cultural intelligence to bridge our…
divides and authentically connect with those around us.The divides between us seem to keep growing no matter the issue-politics, race relations, religion, and the list goes on. Tackling polarization isn't easy, but this book gives us tools to bridge our divides without forcing everyone to conform to the same thinking and behavior.Cultural intelligence, a scientific model originally designed for working with people from different cultures, is ideally suited to bridge our polarizing differences. In Digital, Diverse & Divided, David Livermore, the leading expert on cultural intelligence, teaches us how to use the method he has taught global executives and foreign diplomats to navigate difficult conversations with anyone.Livermore uses his renowned work in cultural intelligence to address everyday challenges such as these:How should I respond to a racist comment?What should I do when someone is completely closed to a different perspective?How can I persuade polarized groups to move beyond agree to disagree? How do I handle the emotional fatigue that comes with polarizing conversations and relationships?Digital, Diverse & Divided combines groundbreaking research, riveting stories, and practical strategies that are proven to build a more culturally intelligent world for all of us.Power Moves: How Women Can Pivot, Reboot, and Build a Career of Purpose
Par Lauren McGoodwin. 2020
From the founder of the influential website Career Contessa, an invaluable career resource for women feeling stuck or unfulfilled that…
combines actionable advice, learning tools to make impactful life changes, and an in-depth discussion of how to build a meaningful career on your terms.With her popular website Career Contessa, Lauren McGoodwin built an audience of ambitious, professional, millennial women who thought they did everything right—they got the degree, the internship, and even the promotion—but still wondered why they felt stuck and unfulfilled. The first site of its kind to focus on the unique, complex aspects of women's careers, Career Contessa offers women the smart advice they deserve, in a voice that resonates.Drawing on the insights and lessons developed from Career Contessa, Power Moves is the essential handbook that helps professional women truly feel understood so they can bypass perfection and planning and head straight to evolving. McGoodwin addresses young professionals’ number-one concern: career transitions and growth, and engages them with specific goals, including:What is a Power Move and why they matterCutting out comparison, shame, and self-loathingHow to abandon the elusive “dream job”Embracing your inner questioner, your inner quester, and your inner-quitterMaking money moves and taking control of your financial futureTuning out from the noise and tuning into your voicePower Moves is filled with the information, guidance, advice, and essential tools, (including helpful graphics) that can help women take decisive, bold steps without self-doubt and fear, Power Moves shows women how to build a successful career on their own terms.Faktor Mensch im Verkauf: Ein Plädoyer für Leidenschaft und Menschlichkeit im Vertrieb
Par Holger Bröer. 2016
Dieses Buch beschreibt Chancen und Risiken von Social Media und Digitalisierung für den Vertrieb. An anschaulichen Beispielen wird deutlich, wie…
die Welt der sozialen Netzwerke erst durch persönliche Begegnungen an Wert gewinnt und wie es gelingt, Angebote direkt aus den Bedürfnissen der Menschen heraus zu entwickeln. Das Buch regt Verkäufer und uns alle dazu an, sich nicht mehr dem technologischen Druck zu beugen, sondern die Kommunikation von Mensch zu Mensch zu fördern. Mit einem Vorwort von Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hennig-Thurau.A researcher and consultant burrows deep inside the heads of one modern two-career couple to examine how each partner processes…
the workday—revealing how a more nuanced understanding of the brain can allow us to better organize, prioritize, recall, and sort our daily lives.Emily and Paul are the parents of two young children, and professionals with different careers. Emily is the newly promoted vice president of marketing at a large corporation; Paul works from home or from clients' offices as an independent IT consultant. Their days are filled with a bewildering blizzard of emails, phone calls, more emails, meetings, projects, proposals, and plans. Just staying ahead of the storm has become a seemingly insurmountable task.In Your Brain at Work, Dr. David Rock goes inside Emily and Paul's brains to see how they function as each attempts to sort, prioritize, organize, and act on the vast quantities of information they receive in one typical day. Dr. Rock is an expert on how the brain functions in a work setting. By analyzing what is going on in their heads, he offers solutions Emily and Paul (and all of us) can use to survive and thrive in today's hyperbusy work environment—and still feel energized and accomplished at the end of the day.In Your Brain at Work, Dr. Rock explores issues such as:why our brains feel so taxed, and how to maximize our mental resourceswhy it's so hard to focus, and how to better manage distractionshow to maximize the chance of finding insights to solve seemingly insurmountable problemshow to keep your cool in any situation, so that you can make the best decisions possiblehow to collaborate more effectively with otherswhy providing feedback is so difficult, and how to make it easierhow to be more effective at changing other people's behaviorand much more.Do Good At Work: How Simple Acts of Social Purpose Drive Success and Wellbeing
Par Bea Boccalandro. 2021
Shattered Lives: Why Women Stay
Par Malia Crandall. 2022
No Nonsense: 50 Tips to Hack Your Time and Get Everything Done
Par Keith Bailey, Karen Leland. 2020
Defeat distraction: “Karen and Keith’s easy-to-implement advice will maximize your efficiency and enable you to find more time in your…
day.” —Tory Johnson, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The ShiftWritten by a longtime consultant who has served clients in over fifty countries, No Nonsense: Time Management helps you overcome overload and avoid the traps that lead to an unproductive relationship with time. You’ll find smart solutions, powerful habits, and proven time hacks for improving everyday work situations: •Harness the power of completion•Stay sane when dealing with social media•Get a procrastination inoculation•Play the 80/20 game of accomplishment•Set goals•Make lists•Have more efficient conversations•Organize your inbox•Retool your priority system•Identify your interruptions•Overcome multitasking madness, and moreA Career Is a Promise: Finding Purpose, Success, and Fulfillment
Par Robin Landa. 2024
No matter your field of interest, A Career is a Promise offers a proven framework for finding purpose, fulfillment, and…
success. Robin Landa, one of the world's leading experts on creativity and idea generation, reveals practical strategies that will help you identify a career worthy of your intelligence, aptitudes, and time. Much more than a how-to guide, the roadmaps, prompts, inner directed questions, and self-assessment tools will help you discover what most excites you professionally, how to set worthwhile career goals, find purpose in your career, achieve success, lead with compassion, find fulfillment, secure mentors and sponsors, and enhance your creative thinking to best compete in a global marketplace. Most of us don’t spend adequate time thinking about what ignites our souls and makes careers roar–well enough to forge a fruitful and satisfying career path. When you spend more than one third of your life working, your career should hold promise. A career is a promise you make to yourself.Whether you are facing relapse, learning to overcoming complacency, or taking responsibility for your feelings and actions, this book will…
equip you to overcome some of the most common relapse hazards you may encounter on your path to long-term recovery.This book gives you the tools you need to work through twelve pitfalls that you are likely to encounter on your path to long-term recovery. Whether you are facing relapse, learning to overcoming complacency, or take responsibility for your feelings and actions, this book will equip you to overcome some of the most common relapse hazards. Recovery from addiction is often compared to a journey where you meet new people, rejuvenate your mind, body, and spirit, and learn new things about yourself that give you hope for the future. But like all journeys, there are also pitfalls that can jeopardize your sobriety. With his popular book, 12 Stupid Things That Mess Up Recovery, Allen Berger has shown many people how to confront self-defeating thoughts and behaviors that can sabotage their sobriety. In this sequel, Allen gives you the tools you need to work through twelve pitfalls that you are likely to encounter on your path to long-term recovery. Whether you are facing relapse, learning to overcome complacency, or taking responsibility for your feelings and actions, this book will equip you to overcome some of the most common relapse hazards as you make your trek along &“the Road of Happy Destiny.&”Coming Clean: Overcoming Addiction Without Treatment
Par William Cloud, Robert Granfield. 1999
Untold stories of people with substance addictions who have recovered without formal treatmentDespite the widely accepted view that formal treatment…
and twelve-step groups are essential for overcoming dependencies on alcohol and drugs, each year large numbers of former addicts quietly recover on their own, without any formal treatment or participation in self-help groups at all.Coming Clean explores the untold stories of untreated addicts who have recovered from a lifestyle of excessive and compulsive substance use without professional assistance. Based on 46 in-depth interviews with formerly addicted individuals, this controversial volume examines their reasons for avoiding treatment, the strategies they employed to break away from their dependencies, the circumstances that facilitated untreated recovery, and the implications of recovery without treatment for treatment professionals as well as for prevention and drug policy. Because of the pervasive belief that addiction is a disease requiring formal intervention, few training programs for physicians, social workers, psychologists, and other health professionals explore the phenomenon of natural recovery from addiction. Coming Clean offers insights for treatment professionals of how recovery without treatment can work and how candidates for this approach can be identified. A detailed appendix outlines specific strategies which will be of interest to addicted individuals themselves who wish to attempt the process of recovery without treatment.Hiding in the Bathroom: An Introvert's Roadmap to Getting Out There (When You'd Rather Stay Home)
Par Morra Aarons-Mele. 2017
“Introverts will love this practical and moving guide to building a career, network, and life you love.” - Susan Cain,…
author of Quiet From the marketing guru and host of the popular podcast Hiding in the Bathroom, a breakthrough introverts' guide that broadens the conversation sparked by Quiet and moves away from the "Lean In" approach, offering wisdom and practical tips to help readers build strong relationships and achieve their own definition of professional success.Most ambitious people believe that reaching the peaks of success means being on 24/7—tirelessly networking, deal-making, and keynoting conferences. This is nonsense, says Morra Aarons-Mele. As an eminent entrepreneur with a flourishing business and a self-proclaimed introvert with lots of anxieties, Morra disagrees with the notion that there’s only one successful "type": the intense, super social, sleep-deprived mover and shaker, the person who musters endless amounts of "grit." Hiding in the Bathroom is her antidote for everyone who is fed up with feeling like they must always "lean in"—who prefer those moments of hiding in the bathroom to constantly climbing the ladder or working the room.Morra knows what it takes to make your mark, and now, this entrepreneur who has boosted the online strategy of clients such as the Malala Fund, President Obama, the UN Foundation, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation shares the insights, tricks, and knowledge she’s learned. Filled with advice, exercises to help readers evaluate their own work/life fit and manage anxiety, valuable tools, and stories of countless successful people—entrepreneurs, academics, and novices just beginning their careers—Hiding in the Bathroom empowers professionals of all ages and levels to take control and build their own versions of success. Thoughtful and practical, it is a must-have handbook for building a fantastic, prosperous career and a balanced, happy life—on your own terms.How to Become a Data Analyst: My Low-Cost, No Code Roadmap for Breaking into Tech
Par Annie Nelson. 2024
Start a brand-new career in data analytics with no-nonsense advice from a self-taught data analytics consultant In How to Become…
a Data Analyst: My Low-Cost, No Code Roadmap for Breaking into Tech, data analyst and analytics consultant Annie Nelson walks you through how she took the reins and made a dramatic career change to unlock new levels of career fulfilment and enjoyment. In the book, she talks about the adaptability, curiosity, and persistence you’ll need to break free from the 9-5 grind and how data analytics—with its wide variety of skills, roles, and options—is the perfect field for people looking to refresh their careers. Annie offers practical and approachable data portfolio-building advice to help you create one that’s manageable for an entry-level professional but will still catch the eye of employers and clients. You’ll also find: Deep dives into the learning journey required to step into a data analytics role Ways to avoid getting lost in the maze of online courses and certifications you can find online—while still obtaining the skills you need to be competitive Explorations of the highs and lows of Annie’s career-change journey and job search—including what was hard, what was easy, what worked well, and what didn’t Strategies for using ChatGPT to help you in your job searchA must-read roadmap to a brand-new and exciting career in data analytics, How to Become a Data Analyst is the hands-on tutorial that shows you exactly how to succeed.Sharp: A Memoir
Par David Fitzpatrick. 2012
David Fitzpatrick’s Sharp is an extraordinary memoir—a fascinating, disturbing look into the mind of a man who, in his early…
20s, began cutting himself due to a severe mental illness. A beautifully written treatment of a powerful subject, Fitzpatrick—whose symptoms included extreme depression and self-mutilation—writes movingly and honestly about his affliction and inspires readers with his courage, joining the literary ranks of Terri Cheney (Manic), Augusten Burroughs (Running with Scissors), Marya Hornbacher (Wasted), and Susanna Kaysen (Girl, Interrupted).“A harrowing journey from self-destructive psychosis to a cautious re-emergence into the flickering sunshine of the sane world….Fitzpatrick writes about mental illness with the unsparing intensity of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton but also with the hard-won self-knowledge of William Styron, Kay Jamison, and other chroniclers of disease, recovery, and management…. A must read, remarkably told.”—Wally Lamb, author of I Know This Much is True