Download or read book Love Your Enemies written by Arthur C. Brooks and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER To get ahead today, you have to be a jerk, right? Divisive politicians. Screaming heads on television. Angry campus activists. Twitter trolls. Today in America, there is an “outrage industrial complex” that prospers by setting American against American, creating a “culture of contempt”—the habit of seeing people who disagree with us not as merely incorrect, but as worthless and defective. Maybe, like more than nine out of ten Americans, you dislike it. But hey, either you play along, or you’ll be left behind, right? Wrong. In Love Your Enemies, social scientist and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller From Strength to Strength Arthur C. Brooks shows that abuse and outrage are not the right formula for lasting success. Brooks blends cutting-edge behavioral research, ancient wisdom, and a decade of experience leading one of America’s top policy think tanks in a work that offers a better way to lead based on bridging divides and mending relationships. Brooks’ prescriptions are unconventional. To bring America together, we shouldn’t try to agree more. There is no need for mushy moderation, because disagreement is the secret to excellence. Civility and tolerance shouldn’t be our goals, because they are hopelessly low standards. And our feelings toward our foes are irrelevant; what matters is how we choose to act. Love Your Enemies offers a clear strategy for victory for a new generation of leaders. It is a rallying cry for people hoping for a new era of American progress. Most of all, it is a roadmap to arrive at the happiness that comes when we choose to love one another, despite our differences.
Download or read book I Love Us a Book about Family with Mirror and Fill In Family Tree written by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrates the many different ways that families show their love for one another, in a text with a mirror and fill-in family tree.
Download or read book The Second Mountain written by David Brooks and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? The author of The Road to Character explores what it takes to lead a meaningful life in a self-centered world. “Deeply moving, frequently eloquent and extraordinarily incisive.”—The Washington Post Every so often, you meet people who radiate joy—who seem to know why they were put on this earth, who glow with a kind of inner light. Life, for these people, has often followed what we might think of as a two-mountain shape. They get out of school, they start a career, and they begin climbing the mountain they thought they were meant to climb. Their goals on this first mountain are the ones our culture endorses: to be a success, to make your mark, to experience personal happiness. But when they get to the top of that mountain, something happens. They look around and find the view . . . unsatisfying. They realize: This wasn’t my mountain after all. There’s another, bigger mountain out there that is actually my mountain. And so they embark on a new journey. On the second mountain, life moves from self-centered to other-centered. They want the things that are truly worth wanting, not the things other people tell them to want. They embrace a life of interdependence, not independence. They surrender to a life of commitment. In The Second Mountain, David Brooks explores the four commitments that define a life of meaning and purpose: to a spouse and family, to a vocation, to a philosophy or faith, and to a community. Our personal fulfillment depends on how well we choose and execute these commitments. Brooks looks at a range of people who have lived joyous, committed lives, and who have embraced the necessity and beauty of dependence. He gathers their wisdom on how to choose a partner, how to pick a vocation, how to live out a philosophy, and how we can begin to integrate our commitments into one overriding purpose. In short, this book is meant to help us all lead more meaningful lives. But it’s also a provocative social commentary. We live in a society, Brooks argues, that celebrates freedom, that tells us to be true to ourselves, at the expense of surrendering to a cause, rooting ourselves in a neighborhood, binding ourselves to others by social solidarity and love. We have taken individualism to the extreme—and in the process we have torn the social fabric in a thousand different ways. The path to repair is through making deeper commitments. In The Second Mountain, Brooks shows what can happen when we put commitment-making at the center of our lives.
Download or read book I Love You Brook written by Bo Family Love Gifts and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-04 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Love You Brook Blank lined Diary journal - 120 Pages - Large (6x9 inches) Everyone loves hearing original words from the people they love and care about. It is our hope to help bless your relationship with your Brook through this journal, We know that taking the time to sit down and journal about those we love has become a lost art in the hustle and bustle of the 21st century. But we want to encourage you to give it a go. Order Now & Celebrate your unique and perfectly imperfect love with the one and only who has your heart.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Year at Clove Brook Farm written by Christopher Spitzmiller and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to a year of sustainable living with renowned ceramicist Christopher Spitzmiller, with advice and inspiration for seasonal entertaining, gardening, tending heritage chickens, and more. Christopher Spitzmiller is known to his many friends and Instagram fans as the ultimate weekend farmer, who raises his own chicks, grows his own flowers, and puts up his own jam, cider, and honey. In his first book, he treats readers to a full year at his country retreat, Clove Brook Farm. Organized into four sections by season, the book begins with spring: the lilacs and appleblossoms, the dovecote with Indian fantail pigeons, Easter lunch, with daffodils and porcelain, and Spitzmiller's recipe for rhubarb pie. Summer brings hydrangeas, dahlias, readying the chickens for the Dutchess County Fair, and a garden cocktail party. Fall focuses on collecting, cider making, an orchard luncheon and a Thanksgiving table, honey-gathering, and planting bulbs. Winter closes the book with holiday decorating, gilding allium, a holiday buffet, and homemade gifts. Filled with tips on creating beautiful seasonal flower arrangements, living with animals, and garden planning, this is a wonderful resource and gift for anyone longing for farmstead living.
Download or read book A Princess of Kensington written by Edward German and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A jealous fairy pines over the beautiful Kenna, who supposedly gave her heart to a mortal and plans to bring him back from the dead. This enrages the fairy prince who desperately wants to prevent their reunion. Prince Azuriel has spent more than a thousand years loving the fairy Kenna. He’s suffered in silence as the devious Puck has led him to believe Kenna’s affection for the human, Prince Albion. Albion has been dead for years but Azuriel is convinced that he will return. Prior to his arrival, he demands Albion marries a mortal woman to ensure Kenna for himself. Puck must manipulate a human couple and create a fake wedding for a man that no longer exists. A Princess of Kensington is a fantastical comic opera full of humor and hijinks. The production debuted in both London and New York in 1903. It was one of many successful collaborations between Edward German and Basil Hood. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of A Princess of Kensington is both modern and readable.
Download or read book Arrogant Agitation written by Anna Baumbach and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Gretchen Brooktree, life is a bit of a struggle. It is 1961, and she works as a secretary to the commanding officer of an air force base, returning home at night to her familys farm. She is isolated from city life and worldly affairs by both distance and a fundamentalist parochial education. Gretchen can recite Bible verses and the tenets of her religion and loves to learn, but she is unsophisticated and unfamiliar with the social ways of the world. Thus, when she suddenly finds herself in love with a highly educated, city-born college graduate, Gretchen faces the prospect of numerous challenges and adjustments. Identifying with her new nickname--Brook--she pulls herself together and gets to work. She enters the University of California-Berkeley, where she is stunned by what she does not know and struggles to keep up. Slowly, she loses the archaic ideas and concepts she has carried since childhood and learns how to make her way in the world. As she does so, Brook emerges into the person she has always known she could be. Based on a true story, this historical novel explores the life of one woman in the chaotic 1960s as she struggles to overcome her past and become a new person.
Download or read book Mariners written by Ernest J. Patterson and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the Mariners, class of 1972, the year of Pink Floyd, UCLA Basketball and running grunions. Before cell phones, video games and Facebook, these Mariners came of age beachcombing the shore and surfing the tide of Cortez, a small patch of sand located in Imperial Beach, the southwesterly-most city in the United States. It is 1992 and the class of 1972 is back to relive old memories and make new ones. Sabra and Marcus are back, unknowingly they are staying in adjoining rooms at the same beachside villa. Ronnie and Eva are here, but so is wife, Marla. She is from Florida and sinks in Pacific sand like a stone. Shana and Carl are back, but not together. Carl went for a swim one evening at Cortez and never came back. It wasn't until three days later that Shana and the other Mariners learned of his drowning. Like a modern day A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mariner's nature intrudes as the order that all of our individual dreams succumb. In the case of Cortez, the sea is personified by Ariel, an award winning sand mermaid. Like the sea, she brings answers. There's a song from the sea. If you listen closely, you can hear the words-better here than there hodads-back to the sea where all things began. As it turns out the Mariners of 1972 return to the natural order of their lives, realizing that Cortez, the tiny patch of sand where they came of age, goes with them. Viola: a shipwrecked girl (any age). Marcus: a good looking ex surf-bum in his late thirties or early fourties, but looks younger because of the way he carries himself. Brook: a displaced debutante in her early thirties. Sabra: a gorgeous & fit beach girl in her late thirties. Grey: an amicable Midwesterner who tries very hard to fit in (in his mid-40s). Ariel: the Mermaid Ron: Marcus' high school friend. He is not as cool as Marcus, but his boyish traits make him charming; in his late 3thirties, but looks younger. Marla: a displaced Easterner who is not conducive to the attitudes and morays of the west; in her early fourties but acts older. Carl: another friend of Marcus; he is the boy from the sea. He drowned when he was eighteen, so his age and looks have been preserved. Shana: ex cheerleader and very cute. She is in love with her memory of Carl. She is in her late thirties but looks much younger. Eva: a beach girl and friend to Shana. Eva is one of the first women to surf big waves with the boys. She is in her late thiritess but looks younger.
Download or read book Water Is Water written by Miranda Paul and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jason Chin's stunning paintings bring to life a playful, imaginative book about the many forms water takes.
Download or read book Eagle Eye written by Arthur Chase and published by Arthur Chase. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful and touching coming-of-age love story with a touch of fantasy. Johnny, a 14-year-old boy from Brooklyn, and Brook, a 14-year-old Native American girl From South Dakota, meet at a summer job working at a cowboy show in the suburbs of New York City-first meeting as antagonists, then like childhood friends. Coming from different cultures and lifestyles, they learn a lot from each other. Johnny, a good kid but lazy with no ambition, and Brook, dealing with a tragedy, comfort each other and create their world. As their bond grows stronger, they begin a beautiful, innocent love of a lifetime. As their magical summer comes to an end, how can they return to the real world? You will fall in love with Brook and Johnny and marvel at the age of innocence we all deserve to have.
Download or read book The Crystal Ship written by Robert G. Rutledge and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crystal Ship By: Robert G. Rutledge Drug addiction devastates people’s lives and damages families in every community across the Unites States. The Crystal Ship takes place in Dallas, Texas but could be in any large city in the country. It deals with a subculture within the gay population of crystal meth use and addiction. This addiction tears apart lives in every sector of life, gay or straight, but the effect reaches each and every one of us. What makes this story unique is that this author writes of how meth destroys relationships and unsuspecting families that refuse to consider the underlying causes that lead to addiction. The story ends with the stress of sobriety and the struggle to rebuild. Robert hopes that readers will gain a more sympathetic understanding of the daily battle that addicts engage. “I hope that people who don’t face this problem becomes less judgmental of the people who do. The structure of religion has created a self-righteous fearful society with an intolerance toward difference.”
Download or read book Scribner s Monthly an Illustrated Magazine for the People written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Brook s Thanksgiving written by Iris Bolling and published by Siri Austin Entertainment LLC. This book was released on 2019-01-19 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holidays are always challenging. The values of the prestigious Brooks family are at stake when drama enters into the festivities as relatives and love ones arrive. Beginning with the NBA star Jason Whitfield and his wanna-be baby momma, who has her irons in the fire for singing sensation, Taylor Brooks. As Taylor struggles to find her place in the music industry, her cousin James Brooks Jr. announces his intentions to enter law school. The family is thrilled. That sentiment changes when he adds his plans to marry Princess Zsa Zsa Ashro to the mix. Certain members of the family are now conspiring to thwart his plans And finally, the purpose of the gathering, the wedding of Vernon Brooks to Rene Naverone is compromised, as her team-member Genesis insists on conducting an FBI investigation into the girlfriend of her soon-to-be brother-in-law. Whew…. A Brooks’ Thanksgiving begins with a brawl, climaxes to a wedding, and ends in an arrest. A traditional family gathering, sprinkled with a touch of true love.
Download or read book The Misses Beers written by Emil Ludekens and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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