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Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert
Par Brian Herbert. 2023
Everyone knows Frank Herbert's Dune. This science fiction epic combines politics human evolution and ecology and has captured the imagination…
of generations of readers. It is one of the most popular science fiction novels ever written, has won awards, sold millions of copies around the world and spawned multiple motion-picture adaptations. Brian Herbert, Frank Herbert's eldest son, tells the provocative story of his father's extraordinary life in this honest and loving chronicle. He has also brought to light all the events in Herbert's life that would find their way into speculative fiction's greatest epic. From his early years in Tacoma, Washington, through his time at university and in the Navy, to the difficult years of poverty while struggling to become a published writer, Herbert worked long and hard before finding success after the publication of Dune in 1965. Brian Herbert writes about these years with a truthful intensity that brings every facet of his father's brilliant, and sometimes troubled, genius to full light. Insightful and provocative, this absorbing biography offers Brian Herbert's unique personal perspective on one of the most enigmatic and creative talents of our time.Country Editor's Boy: A Memoir
Par Hal Borland. 1970
A memoir of youthful years spent in Colorado as the American West was transformed, by the author of High, Wide,…
and Lonesome and The Dog Who Came to Stay. Country Editor&’s Boy picks up where Hal Borland&’s classic memoir High, Wide and Lonesome left off: with Borland, on the cusp of adulthood in the early twentieth century, making his way in an eastern Colorado town that still retained all the flavors of the Old West. Borland&’s father, the editor of a local weekly newspaper, was working to help his publication transition along with the town around him. At the same time, young Hal was experiencing dramatic social and economic change in his own way. In a matter of a decade, Borland&’s Colorado town shifted from a frontier outpost to part of a rapidly urbanizing new America. This memoir shows a boy entering adulthood as the world around him comes of age. Evocative and wholly engrossing, Country Editor&’s Boy is a vividly drawn portrait of western life, by one of the greatest naturalist writers of his age.Beyond Happiness: The 6 Secrets of Lifetime Satisfaction
Par Jennifer Guttman. 2023
Change the Goal, Not the Feeling A psychologist&’s six-step roadmap to a life beyond happiness—one of sustainable lifetime satisfaction.Dr. Jennifer…
Guttman is a strong advocate of providing guidance for self-improvement outside of the confines of traditional therapy, and to that end, her strategy works so well because of its universal applicability. In Beyond Happiness, Dr. Guttman lays out six techniques that will empower you to gain control over your own happiness: avoiding assumptions; reducing people-pleasing behaviors; facing fears; making decisions; closing; and active self-reinforcement. The immense success that Dr. Guttman has had using these techniques within her practice is a testament to just how effective they are. She has shown how moving beyond happiness to satisfaction and contentment is a very achievable and rewarding journey.Ordinary Light: A memoir
Par Tracy Smith. 2015
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • This dazzling memoir from the former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Life…
on Mars is the story of a young artist struggling to fashion her own understanding of belief, loss, history, and what it means to be black in America."Engrossing in its spare, simple understatement.... Evocative ... luminous." —The Washington PostIn Ordinary Light, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Tracy K. Smith tells her remarkable story, giving us a quietly potent memoir that explores her coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a complex backdrop of race, faith, and the unbreakable bond between a mother and daughter.The Dark Side of Alice in Wonderland
Par Angela Youngman. 2021
A unique exploration of the character, the author, and the many transformations of Alice in modern culture—often in edgy and…
menacing ways. The Dark Side of Alice in Wonderland is the first investigation of the vast range of darker, more threatening aspects of this famous story, and the way Alice has been transformed over time. Although the children&’s story has been in print for over 150 years, the mysteries and rumors surrounding the story and its creator Lewis Carroll have continued to grow. Alice has been transformed—this is the Alice of horror films, Halloween, murder and mystery, spectral ghosts, political satire, mental illnesses, weird feasts, Lolita, Tarot, pornography, and steampunk. The Beatles based famous songs such as &“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds&” and &“I am the Walrus&” on Alice&’s Adventures in Wonderland, and she has even attracted the attention of world-famous artists including Salvador Dali. The Japanese version of Lolita is so different from that of novelist Vladimir Nabokov—yet both are based on Alice. This is Alice in Wonderland as you have never seen her before: a dark, sometimes menacing, and threatening character. Was Carroll all that he seemed? The stories of his child friends, nude photographs, and sketches affect the way modern audiences look at the writer. Was he just a lonely academic, a closet pedophile, a brilliant puzzle maker—or even Jack the Ripper? For a book that began life as a simple children&’s story, it has resulted in a vast array of dark concepts, ideas, and mysteries. With this book, you can step inside the world of Alice in Wonderland—and discover a dark side you never knew existed.Your Hidden Superpower: The Kindness That Makes You Unbeatable at Work and Connects You with Anyone
Par Adrienne Bankert. 2020
Kindness isn&’t merely about getting along with people and being nice. It&’s a game changer in business, the door-opener to…
opportunity, and the key to authenticity and confidence. Discover the true potential of kindness and harness its power.Through years of developing her own kindness practices and studying those of others, Good Morning America correspondent and ABC News journalist Adrienne Bankert has experienced firsthand the unbeatable power of kindness and witnessed its transformative impact on others.Adjusting our perspective from being closed off and self-centered to a mindset of kindness ripples into a staggering amount of personal fulfillment and growth.No matter our age or ethnicity, where we come from, or how much money we make, every one of us can be kind. Every one of us can be a change agent.In Your Hidden Superpower, Adrienne will help you:See simple acts of kindness from a new and empowering perspective;Learn how to make kindness a habit and experience more peace, inspiration, and impact;Engage kindness at work and enjoy remarkable opportunities—plus, know how to get from &“here&” to &“there&” quickly; and Activate kindness as a force to reconnect you to your authentic self, replenish your passion and creativity, and find your voice.Your Hidden Superpower describes how kindness is a superpower that can be honed through an intentional lifestyle of kindness and is especially important in these divisive times.Deeper Than Money: Ditch Money Shame, Build Wealth, and Feel Confident AF
Par Chloe Elise. 2023
A guide for women to find financial confidence, say goodbye to guilt, and finally get ahead with money without sacrificing…
what they care about, from money expert, podcaster, and CEO Chloe Elise.This is not your average finance book. Like most people these days, Elise went to college not only with student loans, but also completely clueless as to how debt even worked. Instead of abiding by restrictive, guilt-filled advice, she set off on a new debt-payoff journey where she made the rules. Fast-forward eighteen months, and not only did she become completely debt-free, paying off more than $36,000 of debt, but she did it while traveling and enjoying life in her twenties. And now she&’s sharing how you can do it, too. In Deeper Than Money, Elise demystifies finance for anyone who feels stuck in cycles of guilt around spending. Part practical guide to finance and part motivational kick in the butt to set yourself up for success, this book is all about showing how to live your life, love your finances, and make money matter less. It&’ll have you ready to talk about money at brunch with your friends, and finally allow you to get ahead with money—without skipping the mimosa. Deeper Than Money will help you level up not only your finances, but also your life. Because in order to enjoy the wealth you&’re building, you also need to enjoy the life you&’re living.The Power of Flexing: How to Use Small Daily Experiments to Create Big Life-Changing Growth
Par Susan Ashford. 2021
A leadership and learning expert shows you how to change your behavior, develop soft skills, and achieve personal and professional…
growth through a series of small experiments she calls “Flexing.” A personnel shift at your organization puts you into a leadership role you don't feel prepared for. Your boss tells you that you seem aloof and unapproachable in client meetings. You need to win the support of the members of a local community group for a project you feel passionate about.Addressing these diverse issues depends on improving your soft skills—such as time management, team building, communication and listening, creative thinking, and problem-solving. But this isn’t as easy as it may seem.Sue Ashford, the chair of the Management and Organizations group at the Ross School of Business, has the solution. In this timely book, she introduces Flexing—a technique individuals, teams, and entire organizations can use to learn, grow, and develop their skills and knowledge with every new project, work assignment, and problem. Flexing empowers you to embrace any challenge and adapt to any change, yielding practical, valuable takeaways that ensure growth.Flexing helps you move ahead when you’re confronted with a new challenge, or simply want to develop a vital skill. It’s a journey that begins with setting a flex goal—stating explicitly what you want to learn and how you want to grow. Once that flex goal is set, you then begin to run experiments, solicit feedback from peers or colleagues, and monitor and tweak your progress on the way to achieving your goal. Flexing can be tailored to each person, allowing you to reflect on your own experiences and incorporate the lessons you learn in the next project you tackle. It’s a growth mindset that will help you become the best version of yourself.Flexing also works with teams and organizations. Ashford teaches small groups and large how to implement flexing to ensure their members are ready for new challenges. With more people moving to remote working full-time and developing new ways of collaborating in teams, this warm and practical guide will help every professional and any organization on the journey to greater effectiveness.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.Becoming a Master Communicator: Balancing New School Technology with Ol' School Simplicity
Par Renée Marino. 2022
Becoming a Master Communicator is a practical and exciting guidebook from the communication coach who was the female lead actress…
of Clint Eastwood’s Jersey Boys, that will transform readers into a confident, authentic communicator in their personal and professional relationships.Ignite a Shift: Engaging Minds, Guiding Emotions and Driving Behavior
Par Stephen McGarvey. 2022
Career Magic: How to Stay on Track to Achieve a Stellar Career
Par Lee Cockerell. 2016
Career Magic depicts the lessons Lee Cockerell learned during his magical and successful career with Hilton, Marriott and Disney and…
teaches how motivated individuals can achieve their dreams—no matter the obstacles!Live Your Truth: Start Your Journey to Freedom and Healing
Par Colleen Gallagher. 2017
From being diagnosed with cancer at age 14, Colleen saw many people leave this life without ever truly living, Live…
Your Truth empowers people to find the truth, fall in love with life, and intoxicate the world with love.The Art of Feminine Negotiation: How to Get What You Want from the Boardroom to the Bedroom
Par Cindy Watson. 2023
The Biggest Little Book About Hope
Par Kathryn Goetzke. 2022
With hopelessness at unprecedented levels around the world, and a key predictor of suicide, violence, self-harm, and addiction, it is…
essential to teach the ‘how’ of hope. The Biggest Little Book About Hope teaches the hope skills necessary for anyone looking to integrate hope into their everyday lives.Fit Financial Approach: The Candid Truth About Being Fit in BOTH Health & Wealth
Par Mike Broker. 2021
The Elevated Leader: Level Up Your Leadership Through Vertical Development
Par Ryan Gottfredson. 2023
The Elevated Leader is a cutting-edge leadership development book that explains how vertical development can guide leaders to effectively navigate…
the rising change, pressure, ambiguity, and complexity they are increasingly facing, while having a positive and uplifting influence on the world around them.Coach, Run, Win is one of the most complete and significant contributions to cross country training methods for a high…
school program and is as valuable an aid to the coach as the stopwatch itself.Power Up Power Down: How to Reclaim Control and Make Every Situation a Win-Win
Par Gail Rudolph. 2022