Download or read book Creative Calling written by Chase Jarvis and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life isn’t about “finding” fulfillment and success – it’s about creating it. Why then has creativity been given a back seat in our culture? No longer. ** A Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and Publishers Weekly Bestseller ** Creativity is a force inside every person that, when unleashed, transforms our lives and delivers vitality to everything we do. Establishing a creative practice is therefore our most valuable and urgent task - as important to our well-being as exercise or nutrition. The good news? Renowned artist, author, and CreativeLive founder, Chase Jarvis, reminds us that creativity isn't a skill—it's a habit available to everyone: beginners and lifelong creators, entrepreneurs to executives, astronauts to zookeepers, and everyone in between. Through small, daily actions we can supercharge our innate creativity and rediscover our personal power in life. Whether your ambition is a creative career, completing a creative project, or simply cultivating a creative mindset, Creative Calling will unlock your potential via Jarvis’s memorable “IDEA” system: · Imagine your big dream, whatever you want to create—or become—in this world. · Design a daily practice that supports that dream—and a life of expression and transformation. · Execute on your ambitious plans and make your vision real. · Amplify your impact through a supportive community you’ll learn to grow and nurture.

Download or read book Calling for Help written by Carolyn Baker and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2005-10-13 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telephone helplines have become one of the most pervasive sites of expert-lay interaction in modern societies throughout the world. Yet surprisingly little is known of the in situ, language-based processes of help-seeking and help-giving behavior that occurs within them. This collection of original studies by both internationally renowned and emerging scholars seeks to improve upon this state of affairs. It does so by offering some of the first systematic investigations of naturally-occurring spoken interaction in telephone helplines. Using the methods of Conversation Analysis, each of the contributors offers a detailed investigation into the skills and competencies that callers and call-takers routinely draw upon when engaging one another within a range of helplines. Helplines in the US, the UK, Australia, Scandinavia, The Netherlands, and Ireland, dealing with the provision of healthcare, emotional support and counselling, technical assistance and consumer rights, tourism and finance, make up the studies in the volume. Collectively and individually, the research provides fascinating insight into an under-researched area of modern living and demonstrates the relevance and potential of helplines for the growing field of institutional interaction. This book will be of interest to students of communication, applied linguistics, discourse and conversation, sociology, counselling, technology and work, social psychology and anthropology.

Download or read book The Jumbies written by Tracey Baptiste and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corinne La Mer claims she isn’t afraid of anything. Not scorpions, not the boys who tease her, and certainly not jumbies. They’re just tricksters made up by parents to frighten their children. Then one night Corinne chases an agouti all the way into the forbidden forest, and shining yellow eyes follow her to the edge of the trees. They couldn’t belong to a jumbie. Or could they? When Corinne spots a beautiful stranger at the market the very next day, she knows something extraordinary is about to happen. When this same beauty, called Severine, turns up at Corinne’s house, danger is in the air. Severine plans to claim the entire island for the jumbies. Corinne must call on her courage and her friends and learn to use ancient magic she didn’t know she possessed to stop Severine and to save her island home.

Download or read book Tracy My Destiny written by Michael D. Lieberman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dan is twenty-six, has a masters degree in international affairs, waits tables to pay the bills, lives with Marnie, but still pines for Julie, who mocks him from behind a huge desk at the law firm where she is a highly-paid summer associate. Tracy is thirty-one, works a dull research job for two guys named John, her mother a hopeless alcoholic, her longtime boyfriend also John a hopeless workaholic; Tracy wants more from life, but does know where to turn. When Tracy invites a Yugoslavian political refugee for dinner, Dan serves them a triple-meat pizza and everything changes. Washington, DC, 1990. Set in the nation's capital and suburban New Jersey in the 1990s, Tracy, My Destiny is a love story. But just who loves whom, how, and where is never clear. Tracy and Dan waste time searching for places they do not know exist, emerging from the ruin of stillborn careers, premature fatalities, irredeemable relationships, sexual harassment, and a mysterious arson in parallel states of confusion. Tracy, My Destiny exposes the powerful emotions that run beneath the surface of modern American life and explores the complex instability and emotional lives of two ordinary, struggling people. This is Michael D. Lieberman's most intimate and poignant fiction, a sometimes bittersweet, and occasionally tragic portrait of the journey into adulthood in late twentieth century America.

Download or read book The Locket written by Teresa Mason and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracy Ross is a young woman intent on saving her institutionalized, unresponsive grandmother. Losing her job and discovering her partner, Jeff, is having an affair, Tracy begins to think she is following down the same path of destruction. Tracy decides to break the ties with her grandmother, but upon visiting, tears fall from her grandmother's eyes and Tracy believes that she is not lost forever. Tracy takes a journey into her grandmother's mysterious past, encountering people who knew her who possess supernatural powers. Murder and life-threatening peril will decide if she saves her grandmother or becomes a victim herself.

Download or read book A Beautiful Day a Crash and a Thousand Blessings written by Dorothy Megee and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a beautiful day in January, while riding their motorcycle, a young woman pulled out in front of them. They were on a major highway in Florida approximately five miles from their Florida residence. Traffic was heavy and moving at fifty-five miles per hour. The accident was catastrophic and left them near death. This story depicts how they survived through the excellent care of the trauma team at Osceola Hospital and through their arduous journey of coming back. It also describes how their children traveled more than eight hundred miles to step in to deal with hospital personnel and make important decisions regarding their care and survival. While hospital staff could not believe, the first one to reach their bedside was their pastor Dan Hopkins from Virginia. Dottie and Skip were not at all surprised. They believe God orchestrated their survival and recovery through excellent hospital personnel, family and friends. They also believe that God spared the young mother and her three young children from any injuries that day.

Download or read book The Betrayal written by Tami Cleckley and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diamond Trinity seems to have it all-a successful business, a beautiful son, and a handsome man who loves her. Tracy Thomas has a different life-two kids, a pile of bills and a love life that is more about something to do than someone to love. Best friends since the age of five, the thing that binds them together as friends and sisters is their mutual love for dancing. When the opportunity to join a world reknown dance troupe arises, Diamond and Tracy push each other to train and audition together. But when one is chosen and the other's dream once again deferred, love and friendship turn to jealous outrage, which leads to an unforgivable indiscretion. This is a moving tale of temptation and redemption, where love and ambition come together to create the ultimate betrayal.

Download or read book My Husband s Other Women 4 written by Regina Swanson and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Cheater will always cheat. A liar will always lie and then wonder why their life is so bad! My Husband's Other Women 4 picks up right where it left off in part 3. The novel starts out at the engagement party of James and Misty. The way these lives are intertwined brings everyone together for this special occasion. When you put the ex-wives and a mistress in the same room, there's bound to be some drama. Asia has graduated high school and enrolled in college. Although time has passed, her maturity level remains the same. When she sets her eyes on a knew lover, it causes other people to do things that they normally wouldn't do. Janice is in love with Quentin and he is in love with her. But that doesn't mean anything to Asia Roberts. Janice has to decide if she's going to fight for what she wants. Will she do the unthinkable to hold on to Quentin? Rayvon is neatly locked away serving his ten year sentence for having an inappropriate relationship with one of his students. Doing time was never a part of his plans. When he is faced with his first confrontation, an unexpected friend steps in to keep him safe. Rayvon will soon be taught that everyone that you fight is not your enemy and everyone that helps you is not your friend.

Download or read book The Disease of Liberty written by M. Andrew Holowchak and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberty for Jefferson was 'the' driving force of human history and a realizable state of the human organism and of a society of men. Study of history and anthropology showed that humans were moving from the barbaric independence suffered in primal hordes, which lived inefficiently on lands, to a more economical, human-friendly use of land in social settings, demanding laws for order. Those laws, historically, favored the powerful few to the detriment of the hoi polloi. As a pupil of the Enlightenment, Jefferson argued that all humans were by nature equal, and thus, deserving of as much civic liberty as a reason-oriented and sciences-loving society, a Jeffersonian republic, could guarantee them. This book, philosophical, explains how such a society was possible, given Jefferson’s conception of the nature of man, and how the realization of one such society could lead, through contagion, to a global community of such societies. There are a large number of books that cover Jefferson’s political ideology (e.g., Gordon Wood’s 'Empire of Liberty' and Adrienne Koch’s 'The Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson')—too many to limn—but none that gets at the philosophical implications of TJ’s views on liberty. This book, examining TJ as a natural scientist and philosophy, examines and situates him in the manner of other great political ideologists of his day—e.g., Hume and Kant.

Download or read book Catching Babies written by J.D. Kleinke and published by Underland Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birth, and death. Two ends of the same spectrum. And sometimes the only person standing between is a tired, overworked resident with personal problems of her own. Welcome to the world of Catching Babies. In the halls of a busy metropolitan teaching hospital, a group of OB/GYN doctors complete their residencies and embark on ambitious careers, all while trying to hold their lives together at the seams. Jay is running from a life he’s tried to leave behind, while Katie sacrifices everything she has to serve an endless parade of needy patients. Anna is out trying to save the world, while Tracy is trying to save twins dying in utero. Based on true stories from delivery rooms and labor decks, Catching Babies spins the doctors’ stories into a gripping mosaic of the obsessions, the anxieties, and the heroism of doctors who have chosen to preside over life’s greatest medical drama—high-risk childbirth.

Download or read book Shadows of Her Mind written by K. M. Winthrop and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She awakened by the side of the road, frightened and alone, her mind a blank. Embarking on a search for her identity she was distressed to discover she had a sinister past. The only man who knew her believed she was involved in a murder. The only man she trusted had a contract to kill her. The only man who could save her filled her with terror. And the only clue to her identity was a horrifying nightmare that dominated her mind when she was asleep and her consciousness when she was awake.

Download or read book She Ain t The One written by Carl Weber and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling authors Carl Weber and Mary B. Morrison team up to bring you the ultimate tale of obsession . . . After a rocky marriage, irresistibly seductive Jay Crawford is ready for a new woman--and a new challenge. It doesn't take him long to discover both in one fine package: Ashlee Anderson. She's just what he's looking for--hard-to-get, feisty, and freaky. When their one-night stand extends into months of lovemaking that's too hot to give up, Jay finds he's in way over his head. For Ashlee has no intention of letting their relationship ever end. Trouble is, her psycho behavior turns him on like nothing else. But when Ashlee makes a shocking confession, Jay knows she definitely ain't the one and he's got to escape before she completely destroys his life. . . "Weber spins a lively, revelation-packed tale deepened by genuine emotion, convincing detail and smart dialogue." --Publishers Weekly on The Preacher's Son "Mix dirty red drama, relationship scandals, suspense, love, and you get my girl Mary B. Morrison." --Vickie Stringer

Download or read book Letter to the World written by Susan Ware and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of "Composing a Life" and "Writing a Woman's Life" comes this look at the intimate and public lives of seven strong and vibrant women: Eleanor Roosevelt, Dorothy Thompson, Margaret Mead, Katharine Hepburn, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Martha Graham, and Marian Anderson. Photos.

Download or read book Data Grab written by Ulises Ali Mejias and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the present day, Big Tech is extracting resources from us, transferring and centralizing resources from people to companies. These companies are grabbing our most basic natural resources--our data--exploiting our labor and connections, and repackaging our information to control our views, track our movements, record our conversations, and discriminate against us. These companies tell us this is for our own good, to build innovation and develop new technology. But in fact every time we unthinkingly click "Accept" on a set of Terms and Conditions, we allow our most personal information to be kept indefinitely, repackaged by companies to control and exploit us for their own profit. Each chapter of respected technology scholars Ulises Mejias and Nick Couldry's compelling book opens with a story of an ordinary person going about their life until they come up against technology taking their data: a migrant trying to reach Europe where drones are patrolling borders, a woman in the Philippines working for a software company that takes screenshots of her monitor, a food delivery driver in a Chinese city racing against an algorithm. All of these people could be us; the story of what tech companies are doing is a global story that is impossible to escape. Mejias and Couldry explain why postindustrial capitalism cannot be understood without colonialism, and why race is a critical factor in who benefits from data colonialism, just as it was for historic colonialism. In this searing, cutting-edge guide, two leading global researchers and founders of the concept of data colonialism reveal how history can help us understand the emerging future--and how we can fight back"--

Download or read book Tough Love written by Kerry Katona and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-12-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leanne Crompton had it all - beauty, fame, money. But when Leanne is sacked by her modelling agency she soon finds herself penniless. With her seven-year-old daughter Kia to support, she has no option but to head north to her home town . . . back to her wayward family. With a brother just released from prison, another being taken for a mug by his wannabe-WAG girlfriend, and two sisters trying to escape her shadow, life with the Cromptons is a harsh reminder of how far she's fallen. Now, starting over and with an explosive secret to hold on to - the identity of Kia's dad - things start to get tough. Can she trust her ruthless mother Tracy not to sell her out to the papers? Or will Kia's dad catch up with her and silence her for good? Tough Love is the startling debut novel from former pop star and tabloid favourite Kerry Katona. Her memoir, Too Much Too Young, was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller.

Download or read book The Jaguar s Secret Baby written by Bianca D'Arc and published by Hawk Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He’s a jaguar. She’s a wolf. Can they make a go of it, or will they fight like cats and dogs? Hank has never forgotten the wild woman with whom he spent one memorable night. He's dreamed of her for years, but has never been back to the small airport in Texas owned and run by her werewolf Pack. Tracy was left with a delicious memory of her night in Hank’s arms, and a beautiful baby girl who is the light of her life. She chose not to tell Hank about his daughter, but when he finally returns and he discovers the daughter he’s never known, he’ll do all he can to set things right. Tracy wants to be wanted for herself and won’t settle for less. Hank realizes he’s been a stupid fool and the woman he’s never been able to forget is actually his mate. He’s just been too stubborn to admit it. He will need to prove his devotion before his werewolf mate will relent and give in to the attraction that has never faded. He just needs to find the right words and actions to make her understand and win her heart all over again.

Download or read book Community Service on Planet Weirdo written by Patricia Carney and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jennifer Shaw is not having a good start to her freshman year in high school. Her dad walked out and her mom is struggling to make ends meet. Jennifer's stuck taking care of her little brother, which she doesn't mind, but she can't seem to get along with her mom. She's normally a good student, but after skipping school, she's badly behind and now failing algebra. To make matters even worse, she let her friend Sammy talk her into helping him steal from an old lady, and now she's the one who got caught and is on her way to court.