Download or read book A Nervous Smile written by John Belluso and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2006 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: A wealthy New York couple, strained to the breaking point by caring for their severely disabled daughter, Emily, weigh their own happiness against that of their child--with shocking consequences. Emily's lyrical poetry, the bitter volleys

Download or read book Emotional Mimicry in Social Context written by Ursula Hess and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-11 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotional mimicry has important social functions such as signalling affiliative intent and fostering rapport, and is considered one of the cornerstones of successful interactions. This multidisciplinary overview of research into emotional mimicry and empathy explores when, how and why emotional mimicry occurs.

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Body Language written by Alan Elangovan and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 1276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embarking on the need to have an encyclopedia of body language was a task nursed for years and stirred fear in me for many reasons. First, it was pictured to be a novel project which would surpass the yearnings of people in the field. And also, the structure which it was to take was another daunting issue. However, all these issues only spurred me into bringing out quality work, one that would stand the test of time and cause a turning point in the life of every reader. This book adopts a unique structure of research; its perfect combination of raw knowledge and scholarly findings from across the world makes it stand out from other texts. The book reels out how to relate with people and understand their behaviors through nonverbal acts. It considers all the attributes of human body parts while communicating with others. However, before you can understand others, there is a need to understand yourself first. This is another aspect that this encyclopedia delves into; it explains ways in which you can maintain a charming and result-oriented posture in order to command respect from others during any given discourse. This is a potential tool you need to apply in order to make others open to you. This book explains ways in which you can fish out someone who is trying to play on your intelligence through their body language. In conclusion, this book gives a practical outline of how to activate the subconscious and conscious brains in working in tandem in order to understand the intents of co-interlocutor.

Download or read book Four Patterns of Healthy People written by Matt Norman and published by Archangel Ink. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identify Recurring Patterns to Grow Beyond What Is Holding You Back from Success and Fulfillment! Your most powerful work is overcoming the mistakes, flaws, and wounds you have internalized throughout your life. Are you ready to harness that? Recurring themes of conflict, cognition, addiction, time allocation, and situational responses become patterns that affect your decisions, both positively and negatively. Once you are aware of these recurring patterns, you can use them to place emphasis on the positive impact and minimize the negative. Understanding these patterns is step one to becoming a healthier version of yourself. Do you believe that you can change patterns in how you think and relate to others to have a more fulfilling life? You can. In 2002, Matt Norman suffered from debilitating panic attacks that sidelined him from business meetings, making it difficult for him to interact with others. Once he learned to recognize the patterns that were causing his anxiety, Matt was able to overcome it. Now, he is a leader in the industry that mentors others on how to do the same. You have a choice. You can stay stuck in the same recurring patterns or you can identify and confront those patterns in an effort to grow. Your brain will remind you of trauma and past experiences to keep you in the same pattern of survival, "Be careful, you got hurt last time!" It makes you resist change because it might be risky! As a result, you remain in fixed patterns that can limit productivity and be downright debilitating. This is the brain's natural reaction, but that does not mean you have to be locked into this limiting behavior. You can create new connections in your brain that encourage new thoughts and actions. Don't you think it's time for you to grow and lead a more fulfilling life? You're the reason Matt wrote this book. His passion is to show you how to recognize recurring negative patterns that are holding you back and help you embrace the growth that will carry you to new heights! Matt Norman is President & CEO of Norman & Associates. Through Norman & Associates, he helps people think and work together more effectively. Matt's coaching has helped Fortune 100 corporations, non-profits, and entrepreneurs change the way they engage with their employees and clients. If you're ready to begin identifying the recurring patterns that are holding you back, confront them, and advance to a healthier and more fulfilling life, then you're in the right place. Pick up your copy today by clicking the BUY NOW button at the top of this page!

Download or read book Guts A Graphic Novel written by Raina Telgemeier and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story from Raina Telgemeier, the #1 New York Timesbestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile, Sisters, Drama, and Ghosts! Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. Raina eventually returns to school, where she's dealing with the usual highs and lows: friends, not-friends, and classmates who think the school year is just one long gross-out session. It soon becomes clear that Raina's tummy trouble isn't going away... and it coincides with her worries about food, school, and changing friendships. What's going on?Raina Telgemeier once again brings us a thoughtful, charming, and funny true story about growing up and gathering the courage to face -- and conquer -- her fears.

Download or read book Client Science written by Marjorie Corman Aaron and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawyers know that client counseling can be the most challenging part of legal practice. Clients question and often resist the complexities and uncertainties inherent in law and legal process. Honest advice from the lawyer can make a client doubt his or her allegiance and zeal. Client backlash may be directed at the lawyer who communicates bad news. Thus, the lawyer may feel torn between the obligation to clearly inform a client about weaknesses in legal positions and fear of damaging the client relationship. Too often, the lawyer struggles to counsel a particularly difficult client, but to no avail. Client Science is written to provide insight and advice to lawyers on how to more effectively communicate with their clients with regard to legal realities and difficult decisions. It will help lawyers with the always-difficult task of delivering "bad news," which will result in better-informed and thus more satisfied clients. The book explains applicable social science research and insights and translates them into plain language relevant to legal practice and client counseling. Marjorie Corman Aaron offers specific suggestions related to a lawyer's ordering, timing, phrasing, and type of explanation, as well as style adjustments for the lawyer's voice, gesture, and body position, all to impact client counseling and to improve the lawyer-client relationship.

Download or read book Smile When You re Lying written by Chuck Thompson and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2007-11-27 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Bangkok to Bogotá, a hilarious behind-the-brochures tour of picture-perfect locales, dangerous destinations, and overrated hellholes from a guy who knows the truth about travel Travel writer, editor, and photographer Chuck Thompson has spent more than a decade traipsing through thirty-five (and counting) countries across the globe, and he's had enough. Enough of the half-truths demanded by magazine editors, enough of the endlessly recycled clichés regarded as good travel writing, and enough of the ugly secrets fiercely guarded by the travel industry. But mostly, he's had enough of returning home from assignments and leaving the most interesting stories and the most provocative insights on the editing-room floor. From getting swindled in Thailand to running afoul of customs inspectors in Belarus, from defusing hostile Swedish rockers backstage in Germany to a closed-door meeting with travel execs telling him why he's about to be fired once again, Thompson's no-holds-barred style is refreshing, invigorating, and all those other adjectives travel writers use to describe spa vacations where the main attraction is a daily colonic. Smile When You're Lying takes readers on an irresistible series of adventures in Europe, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and beyond; details the effects of globalization on the casual traveler and ponders the future of travel as we know it; and offers up a treasure trove of travel-industry secrets collected throughout a decidedly speckled career.

Download or read book Empty Smiles written by Katherine Arden and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Katherine Arden thrills once again in the finale to the critically acclaimed, bone-chilling quartet that began with Small Spaces. Now in paperback. It’s been three months since Ollie made a daring deal with the smiling man to save those she loved, and then vanished without a trace. The smiling man promised Coco, Brian and Phil, that they’d have a chance to save her, but as time goes by, they begin to worry that the smiling man has lied to them and Ollie is gone forever. But then a terrified and rambling boy who went missing at a nearby traveling carnival appears with a message for the trio from the mysterious man who took him: Play if you dare. Game on! The smiling man has finally made his move. Now it’s Coco, Brian, and Phil’s turn to make theirs. And they know just where to start. The traveling carnival is coming to Evansburg. Meanwhile, Ollie is trapped in the world behind the mist, learning the horrifying secrets of the smiling man's carnival, and trying everything to help her friends find her. Brian, Coco and Phil will risk everything to rescue Ollie—but they all soon realize this game is much more dangerous than the ones before. This time the smiling man is playing for keeps.

Download or read book Through the Soul written by Andrea Espinoza and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered about the journey that will take your soul to the current point of your existence? TROUGH THE SOUL (past lives) is a compilation of topics such as a reincarnation, past lives, soul mates and regressions. This book lets you experience a story of a desperate cry of subconscious, an involuntary regression trough her dreams, which begins a journey to a past lives, to find one's soul mate, set in different eras and characters..........

Download or read book Moira written by Deepak Agrawal and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-08-02 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That a woman's mind is akin to a labyrinth of impossibility, best left on its own, is but a common cliché of the day. Mihika Singh, our kind protagonist, the prodigal but overly sensitive child, grows up to be a woman ruthless in pursuing her ambitions, yet rooted to her moral soil while breathing life to her dreams. However, with a career par excellence, she grapples to hold on to the reins of her love life. We live her story with her as she holds a mirror to her own heart to reflect on her approach to propinquity, commitment and pain, trying to make sense of it all. She isn't perfect, she makes mistakes and owns them too, taking lessons out of each one of them. As the seasons of her love life change, she explores different facets of intimacy in love, and each time rediscovers herself in it. In this long, tumultuous journey of moving only but ahead, does she stop for someone finally for what it's worth? Or does destiny prove too strong a force to conquer? Let us hear it from her...

Download or read book The Cousins written by Amethyst E. Manual and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN THIS TALE THE COUSINS TURN 21 AND GET ENGAGED IN A VERY SPECIAL WAY, HOWEVER, GOD HAS BIGGER PLANS FOR COUSIN EVE. PLANS THAT INCLUDE MARRYING A TALL HANDSOME SEA CAPTAIN WITH VERY POWERFUL ANGELS OF HIS OWN. YOU WILL FIND THIS DELIGHTFUL AND FUNNY TALE QUITE ENTERTAINING WHEN YOU READ HOW CONCERNED EVERYONE BECOMES OVER COUSIN EVES NEW HANDSOME BEAU WHO IS BIGGER THEN VIC THOMPSON. A SEA CAPTAIN. A MAN IN WHITE, A MARRIAGE TRULY MADE IN HEAVEN.

Download or read book Uncle Tom s Clinic written by Jay Mikes and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-07-13 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TEXT FOR AUTHOR BIO:: Jay Mikes is a public school teacher and coach in Schaumburg, Illinois. In 1987, he published his first book, Basketball fundaMENTALS: A Complete Mental Training Guide. He is the father of three adopted biracial children. Uncle Tom's Clinic is his first novel. TEXT FOR BOOK DESCRIPTION: Uncle Tom's Clinic is the story of two women, Faith Brandon and Kara Ellison. Faith, a victim of rape while on spring break in Florida, must make the agonizing life and death choice for the child she is carrying in her womb. As the daughter of Dr. Ryle Brandon, nationally known Christian author and President of Justin College, a small Christian college in the midwest, Faith is too ashamed to tell anyone of her condition. Moreover, she is certain she will lose her boyfriend, Chris, unless she has an abortion. Facing and impossible situation, Faith turns to her best friend, Hope Stuart, daughter of Vivian Stuart, the pro-choice Democratic candidate for Congress. Hope, who has taken a summer job at her Uncle Tom's abortion clinic, offers Faith an easy way out of her dilemma. Meanwhile, Kara Ellison, and her husband, Robert, ar struggling with infertility. Their fervent prayer is to adopt a child. Will God answer their prayers?

Download or read book The Cursed She Alpha written by Hira Baig and published by StarNovel (HK) Co., Limited. This book was released on 2023-04-24 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I can teach you how to use your powers, but not for free," Walter spoke, staring into Ersa's eyes. "What do you want?" Ersa asked in frustration. "I would like to have a taste of you?" Walter replied teasingly. "Fine! I'll sleep with you if you taught me everything you know about mage powers." Ersa gave him the answer he wanted. He cupped her face with both of his hands and leaned over. "Then let's seal the deal with a kiss, little princess. I hope you won't mind." He whispered. His lips met mine and he kissed me passionately. After the betrayal of her mate, Ersa was able to find her mother. Along with a powerful wolf, she learned that she was bestowed with an amazing power. But will she be able to save her children? Or will her children end up the way she spent her life? This is book 2 of the female alpha series.

Download or read book Mirror Opposites written by J L Daniels and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 795 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stock market crash October 19,1987 becomes a pivotal life-changing event for identical twins Tom and Glenn Lonardo. The fallout from this calamitous market collapse triggers actions and events that inexorably engulf the brothers, sucking them into a vortex called disaster. It is a tale of cool assassins, a unique Las Vegas casino with its enforcers, Wall Street players and pundits and beautiful women. It is replete with a host of unforgettably bizarre characters including a Jewish midget who is part Eskimo and a FBI agent who yodels, and a background true to life story of brothers brought up in contrasting cultures. It is a story of larceny, love and lust; greed and deceit; a fugitive on the run and murder! While it is suspenseful and has its unspeakably tragic twists and turns, it is highly entertaining and always amusing. It will keep a readers eyes open! A work of FICTION, it borrowed from much that was true.

Download or read book Walking with Ghosts in Papua New Guinea written by Rick Antonson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed travel writer Rick Antonson (Full Moon Over Noah’s Ark) tackles his most challenging adventure yet: a formidable trail through the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea. Rick Antonson has traveled to parts of the world that are not simply exotic but sometimes damned near inaccessible. He has climbed to the summit of Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey, traveling beyond to Iraq and Iran and Armenia. He has undertaken an improbable overland journey to the ancient city of Timbuktu, an enlightening look into efforts to preserve the city’s priceless manuscripts. Now he has traversed the notorious Kokoda Trail in Papua New Guinea, a country some call “the last wild place on earth.” The trail is a narrow, 60-mile footpath featuring rough jungle, 6,000 feet in elevation change, and punishing weather extremes. In a country unfairly locked in Western misperceptions, the track is inhospitable terrain yet home to hospitable indigenous peoples, who live among the rusting reminders of the Japanese, Australian, and American armies that clashed in some of the deadliest protracted combat of World War II. In Walking With Ghosts in Papua New Guinea, Antonson shares a journey of physical and mental endurance in his inimitable way, in the company of a mixed band of resolute adventurers, blending fascinating historical context with the tribulations of unexpected discoveries in faraway lands.

Download or read book Skirmish written by Michelle West and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Terafin empire is beset by a mysterious sleeping sickness, the royal House of Terafin prepares for a funeral for its lord, and the orphan Jewel aims to restore control in the empire by claiming the House seat.

Download or read book Shards Of Pain A Weak to Strong Fated Mate Romance Dragon King s Broken Angel Book 1 written by Pheonix Queen and published by Starlight. This book was released on 2022-12-14 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “What!!! I can’t believe this, How can Moon Goddess pair me with a piece of sh*t like you,” His words were like someone poured melting lava into Melody’s ears. “You are my mate! How can you talk like this to me?” Melody asked in disbelief. “I, Kevin Montenegro, Alpha of the Blood Moon pack, Rejected you as my mate and as Luna of this pack,” As he finished his words, Melody fell on the ground due to pain. “I…I-i accepted your rejection,” she managed to mumble, despite her breaking heart “You fu*king b*tch! You will pay for this,” he warned, gasping for breath. Leonardo was the King of the Dragon Kingdom and feared by everyone but he was a cursed king because he couldn’t find his mate. He turned twenty-eight but luck was not on his side and he was still alone. What will she choose? Revenge or Love? How can he heal her broken soul and her shattered heart? Will they learn to love each other? Will she accept a dragon as her mate?