Download or read book Ask a Manager written by Alison Green and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

Download or read book Swallowed by a Jaguar written by Deborah Pearcey and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the eyes of her devoted mother, Deborah, Swallowed by a Jaguar unveils the vibrant journey of Amber Landgraff, a passionate woman who lived fiercely despite numerous challenges. From an early age, Amber found inspiration in fine art, navigating life with a heart full of dreams and a soul brimming with creativity. However, Amber confronted not only the trials of modern adulthood, but also the formidable challenge of cancer, which she faced with unparalleled strength until her untimely passing at the age of thirty-four. This memoir is more than an exploration of love and loss. It explores hidden health risks of modern living, the impact of corporate greed, and the complex relationship between women’s health and societal expectations. Deborah’s heartfelt tribute also sheds light on the complexities of the medical system and emphasizes the need for greater awareness of medical gaslighting. Enriching the narrative, Deborah incorporates Amber’s own essays, words, and art, giving voice to her daughter’s unique perspective. Swallowed by a Jaguar will resonate with anyone who has grieved the loss of an adult child, those seeking to understand early adulthood cancer risks, and readers looking for insights into the factors shaping our health. Amber’s story is a poignant reminder of the interconnectedness of our lives and well-being. What unseen threads connect our health to the lives we lead?

Download or read book The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F ck written by Mark Manson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times Bestseller Over 10 million copies sold In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people. For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected American society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up. Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited—"not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault." Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek. There are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear. While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is a refreshing slap for a generation to help them lead contented, grounded lives.

Download or read book Journey of the Innocent written by Aida Payton and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Aida Payton and this is my true story. Find out the true word of God inside this book based on my life experiences here in the United States of America and the Philippines. I am the person that never went to school or tutorial and yet Jesus himself taught me, the holy family, Angels and all saints. Find out Gods' or Jesus' name in more than 500 translations into different names. The reason I wrote this book is because a lot of people misinterpreted the word of God and use God's name for war. Example like for Christians and Muslims, killing each other for nothing I would say. I am going to correct this, the way God Jesus teaches me. We're supposed to treat each other like Brothers and Sisters, Uncles and Aunts, Niece and Nephews, Grand Father's and Grand Mother's. We are supposed to respect each other. We are not supposed to be fighting each other because of different religions or because we were raised differently. That is beyond God's Imaginations, so here I am, he sent me to deliver his message to all kinds of people in this world. That's why I have to write his name into different languages because we speak different languages. That's why we call God Jesus in different names. In my next Book I will write how People got deceived by bad spirit. I say this because it happened to me and because of God Almighty's Jesus Christ help, bad spirit no place in his Distractions. He can never win over me. We worship the same God in different names.

Download or read book The Elephant in the Room written by Tommy Tomlinson and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 A “warm and funny and honest…genuinely unputdownable” (Curtis Sittenfeld) memoir chronicling what it’s like to live in today’s world as a fat man, from acclaimed journalist Tommy Tomlinson, who, as he neared the age of fifty, weighed 460 pounds and decided he had to change his life. When he was almost fifty years old, Tommy Tomlinson weighed an astonishing—and dangerous—460 pounds, at risk for heart disease, diabetes, and stroke, unable to climb a flight of stairs without having to catch his breath, or travel on an airplane without buying two seats. Raised in a family that loved food, he had been aware of the problem for years, seeing doctors and trying diets from the time he was a preteen. But nothing worked, and every time he tried to make a change, it didn’t go the way he planned—in fact, he wasn’t sure that he really wanted to change. In The Elephant in the Room, Tomlinson chronicles his lifelong battle with weight in a voice that combines the urgency of Roxane Gay’s Hunger with the intimacy of Rick Bragg’s All Over but the Shoutin’. He also hits the road to meet other members of the plus-sized tribe in an attempt to understand how, as a nation, we got to this point. From buying a Fitbit and setting exercise goals to contemplating the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas, America’s “capital of food porn,” and modifying his own diet, Tomlinson brings us along on a candid and sometimes brutal look at the everyday experience of being constantly aware of your size. Over the course of the book, he confronts these issues head-on and chronicles the practical steps he has to take to lose weight by the end. “What could have been a wallow in memoir self-pity is raised to art by Tomlinson’s wit and prose” (Rolling Stone). Affecting and searingly honest, The Elephant in the Room is an “inspirational” (The New York Times) memoir that will resonate with anyone who has grappled with addiction, shame, or self-consciousness. “Add this to your reading list ASAP” (Charlotte Magazine).

Download or read book Walking in the Valley of the Shadow of Death written by Annie Grant and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walking in the Valley of the Shadow of Death: God guidance that's where I met Jesus By: Annie Grant Annie Grant spreads her journey of seeking Jesus through the hard trials of life, from troubles in her marriage to losing a home in a fire, Annie Grant’s trials and tribulations prove that even in our darkest moments, the Holy Spirit will lead. Love from God is truly there, and there is always hope for the hopeless.

Download or read book Causes of General Depression in Labor and Business written by United States. Congress. House. Select committee on depression in labor and business and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BG (copy1): From the Collection of Professor Peter R. Knights.

Download or read book Battered Hope written by Carol Graham and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring memoir about choices; some good, some not so good. This is the story of an adult's mistakes, poor choices and circumstances that developed into a series of major physical, financial and emotional losses. Her story of triumph shows incredible strength and tenacity, as well as sheer determination to become successful against all odds.

Download or read book Alas what Brought Thee Hither written by Arthur Bonner and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study recovers the history of immigrants who left scant records of their struggle to survive in a society in which the Chinese were reviled as dangerous, opium-soaked, and unassimilable. It is based on about 3,000 contemporary newspaper and magazine articles that reflect the prejudices of the times, a major element shaping the history of the Chinese in New York. More than 170 illustrations from newspapers and magazines of the time recapture the stereotyping that justified ghettoization and denial of employment opportunities.

Download or read book London Transports written by Maeve Binchy and published by Dell. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether it's the sudden snapping of bonds between lovers or shopping on Oxford Street, Maeve Binchy finds the unexpected truth in experiences so real that every woman will recognize them. Filled with her delicious humor and warmth, the twenty-two stories in London Transports will delight and captivate as they take us to a place that is far away—and yet so familiar...Where having an affair with a married man brings one woman to a turning point...Where another finds that looking for an apartment to share can be a risky business...Where nosing into a secretary's life can have shocking results...Where a dress designer just had a god-awful day...And where Maeve Binchy captures the beat of every woman's heart.

Download or read book Living in My Shadow written by Hazel Rae Minnick and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing a message of Hope for living with Alzheimer's Disease - "The Extreme Makeover" "The Unlikely Dancer" "Just Believe In One More Day" Promoting early diagnosis: Treatment with Meds, Coupled with Ballroom Dancing To rehabilitate the mind and body Diagnosed with Alzheimer's at age 53, Everyday I fight a battle to still be me. A battle wages within - a silent predator - The thief of my mind, memory, and me. I am a voice that needs to be heard - A mind that needs to be understood - A disease that needs explanation - a cure! "Dancing is Life" states Tony Dovolani - "This is a quote that is a direct parallel to life. It rejuvenates us, keeps us sound, keeps us creating, instead of dying." - quote - Tony Dovolani of Dancing with the Stars World Rhythm Champion Traveling through the Valley of the Shadow of Death - When you hear you are dying, you feel yourself disappearing - just fading away - "There is a Time to Dance!" "God Changed My Mourning into Dancing!" Ballroom Dancing - the Missing Link in My Rehabilitation. "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength - they shall mount up with wings as eagles" "When You See a Single Bird Soar in Flight Remember Me!" Living in My Shadow records my personal journals, celebrating my real life with Alzheimer's Disease from 1999 to the present. I want my writings to reflect the Hope I have in my Heavenly Father's plans for me, reflecting His sustaining companionship on this my journey living with Alzheimer's.

Download or read book Where White Men Fear to Tread written by Russell Means and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Native American activist recounts his struggle for Indian self-determination, his periods in prison, and his spiritual awakening.

Download or read book Equality at Work written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Employment Policy and the Labor Market written by Arthur Max Ross and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A volume in the Research Program on Unemployment conducted by the Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley." Bibliographical references included in footnotes.

Download or read book Eating to Lose written by Maryjeanne Hunt and published by Demos Medical Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hopeful and empowering memoir of one woman's struggle with diabulimia, an eating disorder linked to diabetes. Diabulimia is the dangerous and often fatal practice in which people with Type 1 diabetes deliberately give themselves less insulin than they need in order to lose weight. Maryjeanne Hunt started limiting her insulin intake at age 14 and spent 22 years abusing her body with sugar highs, excessive exercise, and starvation in an attempt to be skinny and "perfect." In Eating to Lose, she shares her journey to health, true healing, and hard-won wisdom: "Weight management could have been a lot easier and effective if only I'd listened to my body and given it what it really wanted all along. Our bodies want health and energy and life. They crave to be nourished and they crave to move with vigor. When we give our bodies what they really want, they reward us big-time - with wellness, happiness and you guessed it, cooperative and healthy body weight." Timely and relevant, Eating to Lose sheds light on an often ignored and misunderstood condition and offers the possibility of recovery for those battling with diabulimia and the people who love them.

Download or read book What Time and Sadness Spared written by Roma Nutkiewicz Ben-Atar and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roma Ben-Atar resisted until late in life the urging of her family to share the memories of her Nazi-era experiences. The Holocaust exerted a dark pressure on all of their lives but was never openly discussed. It was only when her granddaughter insisted on hearing the whole truth, with a directness partly generational, that Mrs. Ben-Atar agreed to tell her story. What Time and Sadness Spared is a journey of both loss and endurance, moving with shocking speed from a carefree adolescence in upper-middle-class Warsaw to the horrors of the Final Solution. The young girl sees her neighborhood transformed into a ghetto populated by skeletal figures both alive and dead. Unbelievably, things only grow worse as this ruin gives way to the death factories of Majdanek and Auschwitz and the death marches of 1945. Life in the camps changes her in less than a day, as if "the person in my body was a stranger I had never met." Her only consolation is to lie on her wooden bunk, no mattress, and speak to the soul of her mother, who, like virtually her entire family, had already been swept away. Roma must summon astonishing powers of adaptation simply to survive, bringing her finally through the wreckage of postwar Europe and to an entirely new life in Israel. In this unique family collaboration Roma Ben-Atar's son Doron, a historian who brings with him fluency in psychoanalysis, contributes through his commentary an awareness of the difficulties presented by historical narrative and memory. A visitor to the much-changed sites in which his mother grew up and was interned by the Nazis, he also voices the perspective of the survivors' children and their ambivalence over being "protected" from this past. As the generation that endured the camps passes from this world, What Time and Sadness Spared illustrates with particular urgency the historical responsibilities of the survivors' descendants, who must become the new vessels for a story that will not remain alive on its own but demands our courage and curiosity.

Download or read book Boys Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1912-02 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.